Upgrading any computer whether it be a Macintosh or a Wintel PC
has always been somewhat problematic and at times frustrating. The
previous fact made a re-emergence in my life recently when I finally
decided to upgrade from my trusty old PowerPC driven Macintosh to a
shiny new Intel based iMac, only this particular change included
additional frustrations beyond just the need to upgrade a large amount
of my applications.
Usual upgrade frustrations aside this particular computer upgrade
required a series of updates that I have never had to perform before
namely my QuickTime components were not universal, subsequently
tarnishing my dream of higher speed video encodes and decodes. At first
I couldn’t find any definite solutions due in large part to the fact
that searching for QuickTime components brings up all sorts of not
clearly labeled, universal or not, components. I searched for quite a
long time for replacements for the components I already had only to
find that there were no upgrades for them. Finally I realized I was
asking the great Goggle the wrong questions, namely I needed to ask for
what I wanted not for upgrades to that which I already had. This new
line of questioning finally revealed Perian.
What is Perian you ask? Perian according to perian.org is, “The
swiss-army knife for QuickTime” and this certainly is the case.
Further, Perian is a universal QuickTime component that supports the
playback of AVI, FLV, 3ivX, DivX, Flash Screen Video, MS-MPEG4,
Sorenson H.263, Truemotion VP6, Xvid and AVI support f or: AAC, AC3
Audio using A52Codec, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3.
To install Perian first you must download it from http://perian.org/
. Once downloaded all you have to do is mount the .dmg and drag the
"Perian.component" to the conveniently provided QuickTime alias located
on the Perian .dmg. After you have installed Perian you should be good
to go but if you upgraded from your old Power PC based computer like I
did, using the migration tool and a firewire cable, you may also want
to remove all non universal Quicktime components. To do this all you
have to do is double click the QuickTime folder located on the Perian
.dmg and right click "Get Info", or alternatively you can select the
offending component and press ⌘ i to do the same thing, which will
bring up info regarding the component including whether the component
is universal or PowerPC based.
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