(if you get confused somewhere in those instructions, you can peruse the extensive, one and a half page README included in the DMG). Log out, then log back in and Perian should be installed. Then drag the LEGO brick file named “ponent” to the alias labeled “QuickTime”. To install Perian, first download and mount the DMG. A full list of the encodings supported by Perian is available at this page. Perian is open-source and can be downloaded here. With Perian installed, you should be able to play everything from DivX/AC3 to FLV to VBR/MP3. Perian is (self-described as) the Swiss Army knife of codecs. Now the easiest solution (by far) is to just install the Perian codec. The solution is to run through and install the third-party codecs required to make all of this work. But it would be so much more convenient if you could simply play arbitrary video files in FrontRow. You could just re-encode all of these files H.264 using a tool like FFmpegX. Also, if you’re extremely unlucky you may have a few old WMV-encoded files which you would like to play. However, a lot of video files are still encoded using DivX or Xvid. I’m not going to try to list them here, but the really big and common ones are H.264 and MPEG-4. Out of the box, QuickTime (the backend for FrontRow’s movie playing capabilities) only supports a few video formats. So, rather than launch into some fascinating list of iptables rules and Apple alias quirks, let’s look at third-party codecs.
However, one of the comments on the first article got my attention and it occurred to me that I didn’t really cover alternate video codecs at all.
#Mac mini as a server how to#
In this next article in the series, I had been planning on going into detail on how to store your media files on a remote NFS share. In the first part, I ran through the basics on how to connect and configure your Mac Mini as the heart of your entertainment center.
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