Perian WAS a free and open source QuickTime component that adds needed Codecs to QuickTime!
DESCRIPTION:
With Perian, the Swiss Army Knife for QuickTime, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
* AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
* MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
* AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
* Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
We are proud to offer links to related software in the community:
* Perian can be used with QuickTime Player, NicePlayer, and QTAmateur to name a few
* Windows Media® is unsupported, use the Flip4Mac WMV Components instead
* The internet TV platform Democracy includes Perian
The Perian Project would like to thank:
* Jérôme Cornet of FFusion and Christoph Nägeli of XviD_Codec for the AviImporter.
* FFmpeg for providing such a rich audio/video codec library.
* Dag Ã…gren and the Mozilla Foundation for the universal Charset Detector.
* Matroska for the audio/video container libraries.
* Perian software downloads are provided by Cachefly, Thanks!
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later.
http://perian.org/