Which codecs etc? Flip4Mac, Perian, what?

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I rebuilt my Mac yesterday because when I moved from the old system to it, I had everything ticked in Mobileme preferences so I ended up with all the rubbish stuff on here that I never really needed. It just seemed sensible to have a nice shiny clean new system.

On my old build I had both Perian and Flip4Mac on it, but are they both needed? What's the bare minimum of sensible media playback codecs and stuff that I really need to install?

I'd like to keep this all mean and clean

 

[Feek]

Well I've installed Perian and Flip4Mac but although I've got Handbrake on (and have already converted a couple of movies for the Apple TV, I've not bothered with VLC. Why would I need it?

 

[Feek]

Gotcha. I'll install it as an when the need arises in that case. Ta.