#PERIAN COMPONENT HOW TO#
#PERIAN COMPONENT INSTALL#
#PERIAN COMPONENT PRO#
#PERIAN COMPONENT ZIP#

You will need to remove the perian- prefix from the directory names when you clone the other repositories. If you want to attempt to build Perian, you will first need clone the aforementioned repositories as well and put all in the same directory. It was designed for a much older version of OS X than is current so it may no longer build anymore. I've not built Perian in a long time and the process of this conversion is no exception. The directory structure of SVN allowed them to be in the same repository easily but this structure is not appropriate for GIT repositories.

I've split out the mirrors of the source for libebml, libmatroska, and ffmpeg into separate repositories. I explicitly excluded these binaries in this conversion so those cloning it won't waste space/bandwidth on these unused binaries. In the early days of the repository, we did build FFmpeg binaries and include them in the repository. I didn't bother with converting the authors from the SVN usernames (which were local to my server) to name/emails. So I did a quick SVN->GIT conversion of the repositories and moved them here to Github. I no longer used SVN for anything and I wanted to shutdown the SVN repositories on my server but I don't want Perian's source to be lost to time. Personally this doesn't bother me at all, as Perian is so rarely updated (There was almost a year between version 1.0 and the previous one), other than that, it should function the same (I've been using it for several months on both Tiger and Leopard with no adverse effects).I long hosted Perian on my own server using SVN.

#PERIAN COMPONENT PRO#

Instead, open the FLV file from within the running QT 7 Pro app or drop-open the the FLV file in the Finder. You obviously lose the only benefit from the prefernce-pane - auto-updating. If you plan to work of FLV files in QT 7 Pro, do you have the Perian component package installed If you do, remember the FLV files will not open by double-clicking on them in the Finder.

#PERIAN COMPONENT INSTALL#

You might want to install the preference pane first, and checking if you need to alter the settings, but the defaults it will use will be fine for 99% of people I'm sure (The current options are about 'Play soft sounds', and audio-output for surround sound).

#PERIAN COMPONENT ZIP#

Repeat steps 5-7 for the zip files inside the CoreAudio/ and QuickTime/ directories in Perian.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Components/.Copy the ponent to /Library/Quicktime/ (Or the one in your Home directory) If you want to attempt to build Perian, you will first need clone the aforementioned repositories as well and put all in the same directory.If you simply drag+drop, it may break the Perian pref-pane if you wish to use it again. Copy Perian.zip to your Desktop (command+c, command+v, or alt+drag the file).Go into the Contents directory, Resources, and Components/.Right click it, click 'Show Package Contents'.If you've not installed it, grab Perian from and mount the disc image, then use the prefPane within the disc image.It will probably be in your home directory, Library, Prefernce Panes. Find the Perian preference pane file (Perian.prefPane).

#PERIAN COMPONENT HOW TO#

Since I doubt I'm the only person annoyed by this unnecessary extra icon, I decided to put together this short guide on how to remove the Perian OS X Preference Pane icon. component codec-files must be stored somewhere, so the pref pane can install them.', so I went to ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ (the one in my home-directory), right clicked the Perian icon, and clicked 'Show package contents', after 20 seconds if digging though the files, I find 'Perian.zip'. Until one day (today, specifically) I thought 'Those. With the components installed on macOS, QuickTime is able to handle a motley collection of formats, from the commonly used MKV, FLV, MPEG-4, H.264, H.263, WebM, VP8, SRT/SSA subtitles to the less known formats HuffYUV, and more. I put up with it for a while, and it wasn't really that big a deal, but it was always there, taunting me. Perian, the swiss-army knife of QuickTime components, is designed to expand the file formats and subtitles supported by QuickTime Player. With version v1.0, it started being released as a Preference Pane icon - I never have to change it's settings, so it doesn't need to be in the preferences. One problem - well, more of an annoyance than a problem. Perian, the Quicktime 'all-in-one' codec pack, which allows Quicktime Player (And Quicktime based applications, including Front Row) to play various extra formats, including DivX/Xvid.