Perian

I can use a universal plugin called Perian to make Quicktime run DivX and XVID content on my Mac, and I suspect this would allow the content to work in iTunes too iTunes uses Quicktime for video.

Apple TV Phil Whitehouse 2007

Perian, which is a set of QuickTime components that lets you open various types of video files using QuickTime or any application that uses QuickTime under the hood, such as iTunes.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2010

VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and PlayerThe best pack to get is called Perian, and it plays pretty much everything, except for Windows Audio/Video.

ehMac.ca Demonseed 2010

Perian, which is a set of QuickTime components that lets you open various types of video files using QuickTime or any application that uses QuickTime under the hood, such as iTunes.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2010

Perian, which is a set of QuickTime components that lets you open various types of video files using QuickTime or any application that uses QuickTime under the hood, such as iTunes.

Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2010

If you open a. avi (or. mkv for that matter) in QuickTime, Quick Look, or any other program that will call the Perian codec through QuickTime -- and you have a subtitle file present in the same folder as the. avi file

MacOSXHints.com 2009

I was under the mistaken impression that the product had Quicktime running under the hood, and if you can install a universal plugin such as Perian on Quicktime to run DivX files on a Mac, perhaps the same would be true of Apple TV.

The future of television? Part 2 Phil Whitehouse 2007

I was under the mistaken impression that the product had Quicktime running under the hood, and if you can install a universal plugin such as Perian on Quicktime to run DivX files on a Mac, perhaps the same would be true of Apple TV.

Archive 2007-03-01 Phil Whitehouse 2007

If you have optional plug-ins installed, such as Perian or WMV Player, you get the bonus of being able to play Windows Media and Flash files, as well.

Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

For OSX the other options (still superior to VLC I believe) are MPlayer and Perian.

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