On the Mac, QuickTime is a recognizable video app and comes with every computer. On the Internet, QuickTime has become old news. Alternative encoding methods have become commonplace, offering smaller file sizes, leaving QuickTime far behind.

Perian is an add-on to QuickTime that makes it compatible with a huge number of video file formats. This makes it much easier to watch a variety of video content on Mac: FLV, DivX, MPEG4 and so on. Instead of constantly hunting for codecs or players, QuickTime becomes the “Swiss army knife” of video players – a phrase its developers are proud of.

After installing Perian, users see far fewer pop-ups about missing codecs. The content simply plays as if it were a native QuickTime file. The only downside is that it was discontinued in QuickTime 10 and Perian is in the process of being put out to pasture.

Other benefits include:

• Wide support for audio files.
• Subtitle support.
• Simple options and preferences.
• Intel and PPC compatible.

Grab Perian now before it disappears from the internet forever.