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Mac Mini HTPC - Extend Quicktime with additional Codecs (Apple)
(2007/08/03)

Mac Mini HTPC - Extend Quicktime with additional Codecs
By Brad Trupp (c) 2007

The Quick and Easy

My choice was an all-in-one approach using Perian.

Perian bills itself as the swiss-army knife for QuickTime and it is an apt tag line. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video and audio formats including AVI, FLV, and DIVX.

Find it at http://www.perian.org/.

Perian's Version 1.0 release (June 2007) enables QuickTime application support for 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

Perian provides a Quicktime video for complete beginners like myself on how to download and install Perian so instructions are not repeated here.

Other Choices

You can always install just the codecs you want directly from the manufacturers.

For example --

• DivX for Mac - http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
• Flip4Mac for Windows Media - http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

Microsoft and Windows WMV

Microsoft also offers a free version of Flip4Mac for playing Windows media files on the Mac.

What's Next?

Previous step -- Basic Setup and VNC...

Next steps -- Network Attached Storage and alternatives to Quicktime...

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