QuickTime on Snow Leopard is better than ever; lighter, faster and better for watching videos. But if QuickTime Player can’t open the movie, what good is it? Perian is a must-have tool that allows QuickTime to play many more formats, including (but not limited to) AVI, DIVX, FLV. An open-source program, it also works in any program that uses QuickTime, so with it you can watch a large number of file formats on Front Row.

Perian, the “swiss army knife for QuickTime”, is reaching 1.1 through a private beta. Why private you ask? When the last beta of the suite of codes hit, the app was leaked. So, to keep tons of Macs out there from crashing from buggy, unstable apps and codecs, Perian has restricted this beta to donators more »