{"id":868,"date":"2010-04-18T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:33:03","slug":"an-essential-add-on-for-mac-osx-perian-quicktime-components-for-flash-and-other-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2010\/04\/an-essential-add-on-for-mac-osx-perian-quicktime-components-for-flash-and-other-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"An Essential Add-On for Mac OS\/X – Perian Quicktime Components for Flash And Other Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am downloading a blip.tv video because it played so badly as it streamed that I want to really listen to the whole hour-long presentation and focus on what was being said. I assume that the reason it played badly is that my hotel limited bandwidth to slightly lower than the bandwidth blip.tv needed to play my video uninterrupted. Ah well – it is now downloaded and I can enjoy the talk and focus on the content of the talk rather than the start\/stop of the streaming.<\/p>\n

But what I get from the download is Flash Video, I would have to endure another hour-long conversion before I could listen to it – but that is where Perian<\/a> comes to my rescue.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/perian.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

“Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.”<\/p>\n

Very nicely done and it allows me to (a) instantly play Flash videos in my Quicktime Player and (b) if I want to convert to Quicktime or MP4, I have far more control than automated conversion programs from Flash to Quicktime that pick my settings. Also with QUicktime Pro and QUicktime 7, I can trim, etc without converting first – and actually, I can keep the FLV as my highest quality archival format – while the FLV videos are pretty harshly down-sampled, at least I do not have to down-sample again and lose quality and increase size.<\/p>\n

I can pretend that FLV is a native QuickTime format – thanks Perian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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