HOWTO: Codec Pack for Mac OS X

Looking for K-Lite Codec Pack for Mac OS X? Sorry to say there is no such thing. But don't worry, there is another way. Perian "A Swiss-Army Knife for QuickTime", enhances QuickTime to play other popular video and audio encoding formats available on the net.

Perian supports:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

You can download Perian directly from http://perian.org/ or http://download.cnet.com/Perian/3000-2139_4-100532.html

Just mount, follow the instructions and enjoy!

Source: http://www.coderetard.com/2008/10/22/where-to-download-k-lite-codec-pack-for-mac-os/

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