What's new in Perian 1.2.3
Jul 25, 2011
- Fixes several problems reported with 1.2.2.
- Some Fraps videos only displayed black. [r1424] (#566)
- Workaround checks for Front Row stopped being effective. [r1426] (#564)
- Fixed compatibility with web video playback. [r1427, r1429, r1450] (#572)
- Worked around System Preferences crashing during an update on 10.6. [r1449] (#591)
- This change will take effect after this update.
- Further fixes to Matroska import. [r1432, r1441, r1447] (#338, #492, #594, #601)
New in Perian 1.2.2 (Apr 14, 2011)
- Added WebM/VP8 support. [r1310, r1315]
- Added support for compressed MKV tracks, as generated by newer versions of mkvtoolnix. [r1317, r1334]
- Added FFv1 lossless video support. [r1363] (#407)
- Added an internal decoder for Theora, fixing compatibility problems with XiphQT. [r1379] (#499)
- The readme and license files are now included in the component bundle. [r1309]
- Fixes:
- Fixed Matroska files with video glitches due to repeated timecodes. [r1364] (#502)
- Fixed several possible crashes in Matroska import. [r1332, r1392] (#223)
- Fixed some Matroska files losing frames at the end of the file. [r1399, r1407] (#224, #558)
- Fixed audio sync in many FLV videos. [r1383] (1.2 regression) (#543)
- Fixed several possible crashes/hangs in subtitle parsing. [r1327, r1331, r1339, r1376] (#515, #521)
- Worked around Apple's incorrect channel layout in .mp4 files. [A52Codec r84]
- SSA:
- Fixed several correctness errors. [r1307, r1308, r1365]
- Improved rendering of semitransparent text styles. [r1328]
- Notes:
- The next planned version will remove support for PowerPC and Mac OS X versions prior to 10.6. Maintenance updates may be provided if necessary.
New in Perian 1.2.1 (Mar 24, 2010)
- Added Indeo 5 decoding. [r1271]
- Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs in Matroska support (1.2 regression) [r1240, r1243]
- Incomplete AVI files were not fully imported (1.2 regression) [r1242]
- Fixed subtitles crashing in 10.4 [r1240]
- Fixed a rare crash with .mp4 [r1265]
- No error was shown if the installer somehow failed [r1270]
- Note that it does not try to correct errors, only report them
- Fixed crash in SSA support [r1250]
- Fixed invisible subtitles sometimes appearing over the first frame [r1275]
New in Perian 1.1.4 (Jul 28, 2009)
- Features:
- Forced VobSub subtitles are imported into a separate track [r1015]
- Added initial DTS passthrough via similar mechanisms as AC3 [r1024]
- Support old ffmpeg-generated MKV files with no enabled tracks [r1021]
- 10.6-compatible preference pane [r1085]
- Fixes:
- Fixed "Load External Subtitles" checkbox [r998]
- Fixed crash/freeze when loading broken VobSub subtitles [r1000, r1034]
- Fixed import of uncompressed audio in FLV [r1007]
- Fixed import of some audio tracks; should improve iApps [r1042, r1088]
- Fixed CRAM codec AVI in browsers [r1010]
- Worked around bug in iChat codec loading [r1008]
- Never allows Apple's code to handle AC3 data anymore so passthrough works more often [r1014]
- Doesn't try to decode some RGB colorspaces (such as in Camtasia) that aren't supported [r1039]
- Fixed some 16-bit RGB codecs on Intel [r1039]
- Fixed importing movie files with no video tracks (regression from r706) [r1042]
- Fixed H264 crash in put_h264_qpel8_h_lowpass_l2_ssse3 (in FFmpeg)
- Fixed crash with corrupt first frame [r1061]
- Fixed BMP/RLE in AVI [r1078]
- Fixed several memory leaks [r1086]
- Fixed a problem with wrong channel order in DTS 5.1 [r1076]
- Fixed possible conflict with UniversalDetector.framework [r1100]
- Subtitles:
- Fixed garbage characters appearing at the end of a line with some fonts [r1013]
- Better handling of invalid SSA files [r1013]
- Fixed rendering of multi-layer subtitles [r1016]
- Fixed SRT files using ',' for decimals [r1019]
- Ignored SSA shapes and lur instead of misparsing them [r1027, r1036]
- Disabled vertical font support again to fix files wrongly using it for Latin text [r1027]
- Fixed subtitles in MKV wrongly displaying at the end of a video [r1036]
- Better handling of move and org [r1063, r1103]
- Notes:
- Compilation under 10.4 is no longer supported.
- A52Codec has been deprecated and will be replaced by an LGPL decoder in a future release.
New in Perian 1.1.3 (Dec 16, 2008)
- Enabled Indeo 2/3 decodecs
- Added external idx/sub (VobSub) support
- Added support for H.264 and H.263 in FLV containers
- Apple's decoder now handles Baseline/Main Profile H.264
- Fix inconsistent importing for multi-channel audio
- Reduced memory usage for packed streams
- Added sanity checks on all preferences
- Fixed crash caused by (among other things) resizing a streaming window
- Subtitles:
- Enabled hack to show subtitles in Front Row
- Fixed negative values in SSA frz tag
- Fixed VSFilter bug-compatibility for an
New in Perian 1.1.2 (Oct 21, 2008)
- Fixed update checker never running - this version requires a manual install
- Enabled frame-dropping on AppleTV
- Fixed some frames being lost in AVCHD/.mp4 with newer versions of QuickTime
- Fixed another ffmpeg crash on G3s
New in Perian 1.1.1 (Sep 29, 2008)
- H.264 in AVI fixed.
- Some anamorphic AVI files are now supported.
- Performance problems due to PIC fixed with Xcode 3.1.
- Incorrect frame skipping on H.264 intra frames fixed.
- Better character set detection.
- The update checker is now much more polite.
- Several parsing and rendering bugs with subtitles fixed.
- Player freezing while loading subtitles with external fonts fixed.
- Audio fixed for some older MKV files with AAC/FLAC.
- Strange values in MKV chapters or video sizes are handled better.
- Initial support for SAMI subtitles added.
- Worked around a QuickTime bug (#5770288) causing frames to be lost during export.
- New codecs: DosBox ZMBV, VP6+Alpha, Nellymoser ASAO.
- Crashing on PPC G3 fixed.
- Fraps decoding artifacts fixed.