As many of us, i use Perian to extend Quicktime Player.
Since Snow Leopard it seems that a whole bunch of formats do not work anymore. On the Perian forums many blame it on the codecs not being 64bit. But when QT player runs in 32Bit the problem persists.
Also, some files DO work. Say XviD and Divx files… They work fine. Especially with audio streams using MP3 or the like. Some forms of AAC work too.
DTS, AC3 5.1 and h.264 do not seem to work anymore. Especially the higher resolutions. Which now seems to be a problem with Quicktime. I doubt that is the case. But i’m no expert. The guy (Gbooker) who said this, seems to be. Since he is on the Perian team and does support on the forum as well. I guess he knows what’s up… Or so i hope.
Anyway, i hope it will be fixed soon. I wanna watch my movies! YARR!
Now i know what many of you are gonna say “Use VLC”! Yes i’ve tried, also in the past. And VLC is still a piece of shit. It doesn’t play most of the files AT ALL. Or the sound is garbled up. Meaning the 5.1 or DTS is not downmixed properly or whatever is going wrong. It hurts my ears. Also VLC crashes a lot on me or does other crazy things that are not cool! So no VLC is NOT an option to me.
So, here is something. I’m trying to playback an MPEG 2 Transport Stream (3.75 Mbps CBR)… Works fine with all players on Windows (yes, even VLC) and Mac OS X Tiger. I’ve got this shiny new iMac, though, running Snow Leopard, and all I can see is:
VLC – Garbage
mplayer – Bad video and even worse audio
QuickTime (+Perrian) – CRASH!
Oi! What is the deal?!?!
It just means that either Perian is acting up or you need Flip4mac.