Improved Perian 1.1 released

February 10, 2008   0 Comments
Perian, The Swiss Army Knife of Quicktime Components (just look at the logo) has release version 1.1. The popular QuickTime component allows you to play most popular video formats in the QuickTime player and FrontRow. Specifically Perian adds support for: AVI, FLV, MKV, MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, 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.

Additional improvements include:

• Major performance improvements
  
• TrueAudio, MP1, and DTS audio support
  
• Slice-based multithreaded decoding for MPEG-1/2/H.264
  
• Apple H.264 now handles AVCHD/interlaced video
  
• Compatibility fixes for QuickTime 7.4 and Leopard
  
• Objective-C GC compatibility
  
• Fixed a crash in Toast
  
• Better subtitle rendering
  
• Subtitles play during MKV loading
  
• Snow support
  
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Version 1.1 requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.7, and you may download it for free from their website.

Labels: codec, FrontRow, QuickTime

Flip4Mac 2.2 released

December 26, 2007   0 Comments
Flip4Mac has released version 2.2, making playing Windows Media files through Quicktime even easier. The release is specifically geared towards improving support for 10.5 Leopard, but it also improves upon several Windows based technologies, as well as export encoding.

Here is a full run down of the changes:

• Added JavaScript support to the browser plugins
  
• Added support for URL Stream Scripting
  
• Improved ASX handling
  
• Improved support for MMS servers and live streams
  
• Improved compatibility with many different web sites
  
• Removed the user enabled "Create Streaming Movies" preference
  
• Added support for manual Deactivation/Reactivation
  
• Fixed potential security issue reported by Drew Yao where an attacker could potentially cause a security issue by deliberately malforming WMV files.
  
• Significant encoding speed improvements for Intel Mac
  
• Improved video quality when encoding 2-pass VBR
  

Ver 2.2 requires 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime 7.0. The demo is available for download. If you really love the product, you can purchase the full version for about $30 USD.

Labels: codec, Flip4Mac