Perian QuickTime plugin updated: do I still need VLC?

posted on Apr 17th 2011 at 3:07pm by Thomas Wong

Perian’s swiss-army knife icon is a perfect fit for what the plugin does: turn QuickTime into the play-everything app on your Mac. The latest update has added support for compressed MKVs and a host of other things that, to be honest, I don’t really understand.

I believe that this added support should let me bypass VLC altogether for the playback of hi-definition MKV files, which is something I don’t believe it was able to do before (corrections to this post are sure to be swift and merciless if I’m wrong). If my guess is right, though, then there are fewer and fewer reasons to use VLC on my Mac.

It’s not that I’m against VLC in any way, but I like QuickTime X’s borderless window so much more…

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Sarang

yes you do!
does quicktime supports playlist?
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  @sarang
  Quicktime doesn’t, but I have never needed video playlists myself. Audio is handled through iTunes and that has playlist support. Works for me
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Strulf

Does HD video content work for you in Perian? Here on my Mac, HD videos run kinda sluggish, they stutter pretty much. It’s impossible for me to watch movies like that.

Perian QuickTime plugin updated: do I still need VLC?

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