The veritable ocean of available video formats can often i tigate a confusing and frustrating adventure in hunting for plugi and explaining to grandma why that DivX email forward she received plays the audio, but not the video. Fortunately, i tead of bookmarking the plethora of codec download pages and backing up loads of i tallation disk images, a new plugin called Perian brands itself as a "swi -army knife for QuickTime," as it aims to help solve all our video format woes. Perian su orts an impre ive list of codecs, including DivX, XviD, 3viX, FLV (y'know, those Flash files you can save but can't play because Adobe's Flash player doe 't seem to i tall an actual GUI front end?), AVI, and much more. Of course, you still need Flip4Mac if you have to play WMVs, but it looks like Perian can have you covered for most of the other formats you (and grandma) might encounter in your journey acro the internets. As an upcoming bonus for Democracy Player users, Perian will be included in the next version.
Perian is offered for free from Perian.org, though I can't track down any system requirements or whether it works on both Mac and PC.
Thanks Rick
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