Setup QuickTime to Support Most Video Formats

Article, Intermediate, Mac OS X, QuickTime, System Preferences | May 2nd, 2008

Tired of those annoying alerts from QuickTime about unsupported codecs? Want your video files to just work? This quick tutorial will provide you with the right resources to do so.

1. First we’re going to download and install a great little tool called Perian. Click here to download Perian.
2. Once you have it downloaded, double click on the the disk image and double click on the Perian.prefPane icon.
3. After you’ve successfully installed Perian you’ll see it’s perference pane. Here you can change some of Perian’s settings.
4. Next you’ll want to download Flip4Mac. Click here to download Flip4Mac.
5. Double click on the disk image and then on the installer package to start installing Flip4Mac. Go through the wizard to install it. Once you’ve finished the install your set to go.
6. Flip4Mac also has a preference pane that you can access through System Preferences. You can use the preference pane to tweak Flip4Mac’s settings to suit your needs, but everything should be setup by default for you to start enjoying your video files.

There you have it, quick and easy. You may have to log out and in again from your User account, but things should work from the get go. Now go enjoy your videos!