Comments on: Quicktime X and MKV files

By: Hani

Hani — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:11:03 +0000

I tried this on 10.6.3 and scrubbing seems to be sluggish but it still works. Let me do some digging around and see what I can find.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:12:10 +0000

This appears to be broken with 10.6.2 and Perian 1.2.2

can anyone confirm this?

By: Hani

Hani — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:19:38 +0000

Glad I helped and enjoy Front Row!

By: AdamF

AdamF — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:25:47 +0000

THANK YOU! Wow I was so sad until now my front row and everything back with MKV files you guys are the S__T!

By: Hani

Hani — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:45:12 +0000

I did some digging around trying to find what the Perian - Open in QT Player app does and according to this site it updates one of Snow Leopard property list files to accept mkv's as acceptable audio-visual content. The utility is a run-once and forget solution, until Apple update the OS of course! Quicktime X's behaviour can't be tweaked in Snow Leopard but there is a freeware PrefPane that'll let you tweak aspects in QTX. Hope this helps!

By: iGuide

iGuide — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:12:21 +0000

Great article, thanks. By the way, anyone know how to work a more elegant solution to this, one which doesn’t require adding a dummy app? For example, how to exit QuickTime X’s preferences to accept MKV files?