{"id":4629,"date":"2010-03-23T13:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:38:23","slug":"quick-tech-tip-perian-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/4629-quick-tech-tip-perian-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tech Tip: Perian Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4633\" title=\"perian_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/perian_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/perian_logo.png 210w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/perian_logo-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/perian_logo-190x190.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who play a lot of video on their Macs and are running OSX 10.4.7 or later may want to pick up the latest version of <a href=\"http:\/\/perian.org\/\">Perian<\/a>, which was updated earlier this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with Perian, it&#8217;s a free component that, when installed, allows QuickTime Player (and other QuickTime-enabled applications) to play a wide variety of video formats that are normally unsupported, including Matroska (.mkv), Flash movies (.flv), and others.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve downloaded the disk image from the Perian Web site, a simple double-click is all you need to install. For all the added compatibility it adds, this is a simple enough task.<\/p>\n<p>For additional compatibility, you may also want to look into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telestream.net\/flip4mac-wmv\/overview.htm\">Flip4Mac<\/a> (for Windows Media) and <a href=\"http:\/\/xiph.org\/quicktime\/about.html\">XiphQT<\/a> (for Ogg Vorbis audio and Ogg Theora movies).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">OWC has no affiliation with this software and receives no benefit related to this support (other than a benefit we all share in the continued support of these applications). If you appreciate the function or functionality this software offers, we encourage you to support the authors.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who play a lot of video on their Macs and are running OSX 10.4.7 or later may want to pick up the latest version of Perian, which was updated earlier this afternoon. 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