Perian is a must install on every Mac. Why? Becouse it is the swiss army knife for every Quick Time. It empowers Quick Time to play virtually unlimited number of video codecs like AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW, just to name a few.

The 1.2.2 update adds compatibility with WebM/VP8, compressed MKV files, and FFv1 lossless video formats. Perian 1.2.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later. But users of older Mac OS versions are forewarned — this is the last version of Perian that will support PowerPC Macs or any Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 and below. Going forward, future releases of Perian will only support Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.

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