Perian to Retire After a Final Update

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From the Perian homepage: We began the Perian project over 6 years ago. We wanted to simplify viewing your content. Our team has attained that goal and with that in mind, Perian will be retired soon. Our stewardship has been a blast but it’s time for all of us to move on.

When I first purchased my Mac, Perian was one of the must-have applications that should’ve been installed as part of your initial setup alongside Quicksilver, MacFUSE, and Growl. Perian, the can-play-anything System Preferences drop-in, was considered essential for anyone with folders of DivX files (even though it could play so much more).

While Perian’s developers are dropping support for the over six year old product, the OS X community will have the chance to maintain the product once Perian’s source code is shared after development ends.

Starting 90 days after the final Perian release, we will no longer provide support. We’ll wrap up our loose ends, pack up our bags, and move on to new and exciting projects.

Perian’s developers are asking that the community step forward to handle support requests, and they are directing new users to download Niceplayer as an alternative.

Perian should continue to work on Lion as time permits, but its compatibility with Mountain Lion is undetermined.

The source code will be posted to Google Code or GitHub soon for developers to learn from. If developers are interested in maintaining Perian, the #perian IRC room on irc.freenode.net will provide a hub where developers can communicate, ask questions, and get in contact with the founders. As it stands right now, Perian’s development will end within the next few months.
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http://www.macstories.net/mac/perian-to-retire-after-a-final-update/
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/14/perian-posts-end-of-life-notice-mac-video-enthusiasts-weep/
http://code.google.com/p/niceplayer/

Goodbye dear old friend...
 
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Perian finally comes to an end.

Perian, the OSX video software that adds support to Quicktime for many video formats has finally come to an end. The developers are moving on but have decided to upload the source code to Google Docs or Github. Perian add these libraries :

• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2
• DivX
• 3ivx
• H.264
• Flash Video
• Flash Screen Video
• On2 VP3, VP6, VP8
• H263I
• HuffYUV and ffvhuff
• Indeo 2, 3 & 5
• MPEG-1, 2 & 4 Video (in supported formats)
• Fraps (up to v4)
• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2
• Flash ADPCM
• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
• MPEG Layer I and II audio
• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio
• Snow wavelet video
• DosBox video
• Nellymoser ASAO audio
• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:
• AVI file format
• FLV file format
• NUV file format
• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:
• MKV file format
• Subtitles:
• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha
• SRT
• SAMI
• VobSub
• liba52, via A52Codec:
• AC3 audio

You can read their final message here
 
Never been that impressed with Perian+Quicktime compatibility & performance.

All my local video file extensions are map to MplayerX, but most are viewed remotely using the Plex Media Center client.
 
Perian is a wonderful add-on, I'm glad it's being open-sourced so it can live on.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Perian is a wonderful add-on, I'm glad it's being open-sourced so it can live on.
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Let's hope so; it all comes down to whether someone in the opensource community will see the need to do so.

Perian I agree has been a great solution, but it had it failings; there we many videos that it would have sounds problems with; VLC tended to play them all perfectly.

So IMO the lack of maintenance by the Perian team had already been showing through for quite a while.

Nevertheless I still prefer Perian's integration with OSX, so it would be great if it lives beyond its cornerstone moment.
 
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