The Perian web site released a note today that a final version was coming soon, with support for the plug-in ending 90 days after release. Skip to main content. The homepage.

If Perian does stop working in a future version of OS X, the team recommends open-source media players VLC and MPlayer OS X as potential replacements. They also gave a thumbs up to the Niceplayer ...

Perian, the popular QuickTime plugin that lets you watch a plethora of video … ...

Those are the key features in version 1.2.2, but note also that this is the last version that will support older macs with PowerPC cores—you're good with OS X 10.4.7 for now, but 10.6 will be ...

A new freeware component called Perian allows you to view most of those other codecs that QuickTime doesn't support, including DivX, XviD, 3viX, FLV, with plans for both Matroska and Ogg.