Perian, the “Swiss Army knife for QuickTime,” has decided to cease development after six years on the market. The Perian team posted a notice to its users this week, saying that the software is “as ...

There's a mantra here at the Ars Orbiting HQ when staffers and freelancers invariably switch from whatever to the Mac, and then find themselves stuck when it comes to watching their porn video ...

The full list of 1.0 changes follows after the jump Thanks Jason PUpdate: TUAW reader Chris Forsythe wrote in reporting that he found Perian 1.0 buggy and that it's crashing on him. So far it's ...

The developers of Perian, the free and extremely popular video format extender for QuickTime, have announced that they are ceasing work on the project. In a statement on the project’s Web site, the ...

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 The Perian web site released a note today that a final version ...

Perian has been a steadfast friend on my computer for years. With Perian, nearly any video format I throw at QuickTime simply works. Perian has been a wonder. It supports AVI. It supports DivX. It ...

Perian, the six-year old play-anything video package for the Mac, is about to be retired. It won’t be taken out round the back of the farm, forced to stand by an old bathtub and then shot in the back ...

The Swiss Army knife of video codecs is folding up its blades for the last time. The team behind the open-source project Perian has announced that it will be retiring the endeavor after one final ...

Perian is not the only option for viewing video formats that are not supported by default in QuickTime. There are also the free VLC player and MPlayer OSX Extended with the binary codec package (both ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

We began the Perian project over 6 years ago. We wanted to simplify viewing your content. Our team has attained that goal and with that in mind, Perian will be retired soon. Our stewardship has been a ...

Our friend Reid just sent in a link to Perian, a plug-in for Mac OS X users that allows QuickTime to play and decode almost any media file on the web. I downloaded it and tested it out, and it works ...