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Perian 1.1.1 released

by Gand last modified 2008-09-30 08:47 AM

Bug fix release of the swiss-army knife for QuickTime™.


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Perian 1.1.1 - QuikTime™ plug-in to play most video format. (U)

Home and download page: http://www.perian.org/

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

 

Change log

  • H.264 in AVI fixed
  • Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported
  • Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1
  • Incorrect frame skipping on H.264 intra frames fixed
  • Better character set detection
  • The update checker is now much more polite
  • Several parsing and rendering bugs with subtitles fixed
  • Player freezing while loading subtitles with embedded fonts fixed
  • Audio fixed for some older MKV files with AAC/FLAC
  • Strange values in MKV chapters or video sizes are handled better
  • Initial support for SAMI subtitles added
  • Worked around a QuickTime bug (#5770288) causing frames to be lost during export
  • New codecs: DosBox ZMBV, VP6+Alpha, Nellymoser ASAO
FFmpeg:
  • Crashing on PPC G3 fixed
  • Fraps decoding artifacts fixed

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