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Audio / Video Components

Components add the format to your media player application; you can play the given format with Quick Time, iTunes, iMovie, Front Row, etc.

Perian is a program that manages, and adds the audio and video components to your Mac that is needed to play almost any audio / video format.

Download Perian from www.perian.org

Windows Media formats are not included with Perian.
Flip4Mac is a commercial product with a free version available for playing Windows Media formats (wmv, wma).

Download Flip4Mac from www.telestream.net

Ogg is a popular mp3 alternative that is free and provides much higher audio quality than mp3. XiphQT adds the ogg audio format to your Mac.

Download XiphQT from www.xiph.org/quicktime/

Alternatives

If you don’t want to download all the above components a simple alternative is to download a new media player that has most of these components built-in to the program.

VLC from www.videolan.org
MPlayer from www.mplayerhq.hu

Are two applications that are an all-in-one solution.

XBMC is an all-in-one Media Center solution that can be used with the Apple Remote and Apple TV. This Application can be used to replace Apple’s Front Row.

Download XBMC from www.xbmc.org

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