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  • Perian development to end, final version to fix remaining bugs

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    Perian, the iconic, free, incredibly useful open source video utility project that’s allowed QuickTime to handle nearly every video format possible, will soon be coming to an end.

    Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the project’s developers have stated that Perian is reaching the end of the road.

    Today, the Perian dev team announced that the software will no longer be updated. They will release all the source code to Google Code or Github, but the team is moving on.

    For now, Perian continues to work with OS X Lion. From here, however, it’s unsure whether it will make the leap to Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

    The dev team is no longer accepting contributions and requests that you send any money in their honor to Ronald McDonald House, Child’s Play, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

  • Perian 1.2.3 released

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    Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.3 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    – AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats.

    – MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio.

    – AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3.

    – Subtitle support for SSA and SRT.

    – Some Fraps videos only displayed black.

    – Workaround checks for Front Row stopped being effective.

    – Fixed compatibility with web video playback.

    – Worked around System Preferences crashing during an update on 10.6.

    – Further fixes to Matroska import.

    Perian 1.2.3 is a 3.4 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

  • Perian 1.2.1 Released

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    Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.1 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    – Added Indeo 5 decoding. [r1271].
    – Fixed several bugs in Matroska support (1.2 regression) [r1240, r1243].
    – Incomplete AVI files were not fully imported (1.2 regression) [r1242].
    – Fixed subtitles crashing in 10.4 [r1240].
    – Fixed a rare crash with .mp4 [r1265].
    – No error was shown if the installer somehow failed [r1270] Note that it does not try to correct errors, only report them.
    – Fixed crash in SSA support [r1250].
    – Fixed invisible subtitles sometimes appearing over the first frame [r1275].

    Perian is a 3.3 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

  • Perian 1.2 Released

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    Late Monday, the Perian team released version 1.2 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    – Matroska cover art is now imported as iTunes cover art [r1149].
    – Video tracks now have their colorspace set based on the size of the video [r1170].

    Mac OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard compatibility fixes:
    – QuickTime Player 10 refused to open some files due to missing type identifiers [r1126].
    – Worked around 96khz HE-AAC audio tracks not playing or playing noise [r1128].
    – Extended Front Row subtitle hack to cover 10.6 and reduced its ugliness [r1130, r1186].
    – Worked around re-encoding files with subtitles not working [r1177].
    – Worked around some MKV embedded fonts being incompatible with 10.6 [r1193].
    – Fixed RGB HuffYUV video displaying black bars over the video on 10.6 [r1198].
    – Now compiles under Xcode 3.2

    Fixes:
    – Using a debugger on a process with Perian loaded printed warnings about missing files [r1122].
    – Fixed decoding of WMA audio tracks [r1131].
    – Fixed a crash in LoadExternalSubtitlesFromFileDataRef [r1153].
    – Fixed some VobSub video tracks displaying with wrong colors [r1171].
    – Better support for tracks with delayed start times [r1181].
    – Fixed MPEG1/2 in Matroska playing out of order [r1188].
    – Fixed a crash opening files while they were being downloaded [r1227].

    SSA:
    – Fixed some top-aligned subtitles being too low [r1163].
    – Vertical text is re-enabled and works somewhat better [r1208].

    Perian is a 3.3 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

  • Perian 1.1.4 Released

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    Late Monday, the Perian team released version 1.1.4 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    Features:
    * Forced VobSub subtitles are imported into a separate track.
    * Added initial DTS passthrough via similar mechanisms as AC3.
    * Support old ffmpeg-generated MKV files with no enabled tracks.
    * 10.6-compatible preference pane.

    Fixes:
    * Fixed “Load External Subtitles” checkbox.
    * Fixed crash/freeze when loading broken VobSub subtitles.
    * Fixed import of uncompressed audio in FLV.
    * Fixed import of some audio tracks; should improve iApps.
    * Fixed CRAM codec AVI in browsers.
    * Worked around bug in iChat codec loading.
    * Never allows Apple’s code to handle AC3 data anymore so passthrough works more often.
    * Doesn’t try to decode some RGB colorspaces (such as in Camtasia) that aren’t supported.
    * Fixed some 16-bit RGB codecs on Intel.
    * Fixed importing movie files with no video tracks (regression from r706).
    * Fixed H264 crash in put_h264_qpel8_h_lowpass_l2_ssse3 (in FFmpeg).
    * Fixed crash with corrupt first frame.
    * Fixed BMP/RLE in AVI.
    * Fixed several memory leaks.
    * Fixed a problem with wrong channel order in DTS 5.1.
    * Fixed possible conflict with UniversalDetector.framework.

    Subtitles:
    * Fixed garbage characters appearing at the end of a line with some fonts.
    * Better handling of invalid SSA files.
    * Fixed rendering of multi-layer subtitles.
    * Fixed SRT files using ‘,’ for decimals.
    * Ignored SSA shapes and blur instead of misparsing them.
    * Disabled vertical font support again to fix files wrongly using it for Latin text.
    * Fixed subtitles in MKV wrongly displaying at the end of a video.
    * Better handling of move and org.

    Perian is a 3.6 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run.