Re: Perian WebM plugin for Safari

[Graham Booker]

On Nov 18, 2014, at 9:32 AM, MacBook Air <rui...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is there anyway to just install Perian WebM plugin for Safari? Perian works great but it has a hard time dealing with MKV as it usually overloads the CPU because it's caching and previewing MKVs... I have already switched to another player for my daily MKV videos (MPlayer/VLC) but I would love to use Safari as I don't like Chrome and Perian is the only solution to have WebM working on Safari.

Just as a note, the issue with MKVs in QT is due to QuickTime’s architecture, not Perian itself.  QuickTime was not designed to handle a format like MKV.  The same is true of an AVI file that is missing an index.

So, how can I install WebM only or how can I enable just WebM Plugin after installing Perian?

Due to the way that Perian is packaged, it is mostly an all or nothing.  The only piece that is separable from the whole is the AC3 codec, because it uses code under a different license.  In addition, if you were to get a build of Perian that only had WebM and nothing else, it cannot be enabled for Safari only.  Safari uses QuickTime, so a plugin for QuickTime, such as Perian, is enabled for all of QuickTime.

Is there a reason you don’t want the rest of Perian’s codecs in QuickTime?  You can associate mkv to be opened with VLC and not QuickTime Player, thus negating the issue with MKV playback in a QuickTime based player.  Also, I would recommend VLC over MPlayer since the latter isn’t as actively developed.

Thank you guys

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