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thewhitehart

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When they say that Perian is included with Democracy Player, does that automatically enable it for Quicktime when Quicktime is used by itself?

I'm confused because I have a divx movie that used to only play with VLC. Now I see it plays with Democracy Player, and I guessed this was because Perian was included. So I assumed it would now play properly with Quicktime Player, but it still doesn't.
 
Only one way to find out. Download Perian from here, install over the top of what you have and see if everything still works.
 
Brilliant! The risk paid off, thanks :D

Silly that the Democracy Player doesn't install it "system wide", and only with itself. Then again, I suppose doing that would be beyond the scope of the application, and it might piss people off I suppose.

It's just that when "Perian included" is stated on Democracy's website and Perian's website, it makes it seem as if the codec would be installed for Quicktime as well.
 
That *is* strange. Democracy uses QT components to play (on Macs, but not on Windows). Perian normally installs as a bundle in /library/quicktime/perian.component (or, I guess, in ~/library/quicktime/perian.component if you install it for a single user).

Per this, Democracy is supposed to put it in the same place:

https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/DemocracyFoldersMac

As of 0.9.1 Democracy installs a few QuickTime? components on OSX. Nuke these for a really thorough clean:

/Library/QuickTime/Perian.component
/Library/QuickTime/Theora.component
/Library/QuickTime/OggImport.component

I think it might even install these twice, at a user level and a system-wide level...
 
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