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title: Perian
date: 2008-04-18 00:00:00 Z
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- news
- quicktime
- media
- xvid
- divx
- matroska
- h264
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[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.