Enable just one codec

[asoksevil]

Hi,

Is there anyway to just enable WebM support from Perian? At this moment, Perian is the only tool that allows Safari to play embedded webm videos.

[MaddTheSane]

Yes, but doing so with Perian would be needlessly complex.

As Perian is more of a scatter-shot effort to add more decoders for the old QuickTime framework, just targeting WebM support would not be ideal. It also would be needlessly complex just using FFMpeg to decode one codec, as there is a separate library to decode the VP8 codec used in WebM.

[asoksevil]

I see...

Thanks for the explanation.

My next two questions are:

1. How can we disable WebM on YouTube? WebM at this moment does not support hardware acceleration so it eats at about 100% of my CPU while playing HD videos.
2. How can I disable Perian with MKV/AVI/FLV videos so it doesn't prefetch nor create thumbnails (as it eats up another big chunk of CPU usage)?