Video Compression with Roxio Crunch

Roxio Crunch

Sonic Solutions, the developer of Roxio Toast Titanium, released Roxio Toast last week. What is it for? Roxio Crunch is an MPEG-4 exporter especially designed for Apple TV and Video iPod. Okay. But if I already have QuickTime Pro, is it something that I would still like to have? And here comes another question. Does it read MPEG files? If it reads MPEG files, does that mean Roxio Crunch can decode and transcode MPEG into MPEG-4 with or without MPEG-2 Playback? How about AC3, AVI and WMV? Continue reading →

Feral Interactive: “Colin McRae Rally” Coming Soon

colin mcrae rally

According to English game publisher Feral Interactive, they will soon release Colin McRae Rally Mac. The game is based on “Colin McRae Rally 2005,” whose PC version was released on October 28, 2004. So it’s a bit old game to be ported for Mac OS. Nonetheless, it seems to have received relatively good overall ratings under Windows OS. For example, GameSpot has given 8.3 out of 10, and GameSpy has given 4.5 out of 5 stars. Continue reading →

Mac Software Review: Roxio Crunch 1.0

Roxio Crunch
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Sonic Solutions, the developer of Roxio Toast Titanium, quietly introduced Roxio Crunch 5 days ago. What is it for? Roxio Crunch is a video exporter. More specifically, it is an MP4 transcoder. Roxio Crunch allows the user to decode video (MOV, AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, ISO, Video_TS, DVD) and then re-encode it with a different video compressor (MPEG-4 Part 2 or Part 10) under MP4 format (.m4v). Transcoded movies are iPod and Apple TV-ready. Continue reading →

Notice from Site Administrator

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The number of exploited websites of American colleges and universities is so huge that MacHouse is no longer able to notify each department, each college and each institution of affiliate spam problems. We wrote to Association of American Colleges and Universities several days ago and asked them for their cooperation in combating affiliate spam surrounding high education systems. But our request has been ignored.

If you are from a college/university whose website has been exploited for affiliate spam, we advise that you stand up, talk to other victims and form a cooperative body to hunt down whoever is responsible. For removing spam pages will not solve the problem at all.

Furthermore, MacHouse has proceeded to destroy some of spam domains, which we hope will soon be inactive in a few days. We regret to inform that we resign from this volunteer work in securing safe Internet enviroments.

Therefore, from now on, we will spend less time taking care of other people’s business. MacHouse needs to go back to its expertise. It’s time for us to concentrate on producing video tutorials for Mac users and its members.

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