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title: Perian
date: '2008-04-18T00:00:00+00:00'
categories:
- blog
- divx
- h264
- matroska
- media
- news
- quicktime
- xvid
layout: post
---

[Perian](http://perian.org/#detail) is an open source Quicktime component that adds support for AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats, along with H.246 and XVid/DivX support among others.