Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

The Perian web site released a note today that a final version was coming soon, with support for the plug-in ending 90 days after release The Perian web site released a note today that a final version ...

The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the ...

Dubbed the “Swiss-army knife for QuickTime,” open source QuickTime component Perian is finally closing down shop. The team of the six-year-old project announced the news today on their website and ...

There's a mantra here at the Ars Orbiting HQ when staffers and freelancers invariably switch from whatever to the Mac, and then find themselves stuck when it comes to watching their porn video ...

It had to occur sooner or later. Quicktime is deprecated, old technology. Still, it's pretty bad news. I know there are other solutions to play various video formats, but QT player does things that ...

The third-party video codec pack for QuickTime "Perian" has been updated to version 1.2.1, which adds support for more codecs and fix a number of bugs that caused crashes. The application is a popular ...

Yesterday Perian updated its QuickTime plug-in for the Mac. For those of you who don't know about it, Perian is a plug-in allowing Mac users to view a virtually unlimited number of video codecs in ...

Perian, a free open-source plug-in that enables QuickTime support for a wide variety of video formats, has been updated with additional video format compatibility and fixes. Version 1.2.2 of Perian ...

The veritable ocean of available video formats can often instigate a confusing and frustrating adventure in hunting for plugins and explaining to grandma why that DivX email forward she received plays ...

Over the years, Apple’s QuickTime software has become more and more versatile, supporting many more formats today than it did just a few years ago. And thanks to Telestream’s now-free Flip4Mac plug-in ...

Our friend Reid just sent in a link to Perian, a plug-in for Mac OS X users that allows QuickTime to play and decode almost any media file on the web. I downloaded it and tested it out, and it works ...