The following video tutorial deals with the Matroska multimedia format. Matroska is a container format just like AVI and MOV. So it’s not the matter of installing a proper plug-in to open Matroska-formatted video files with QuickTime.

The simple video tutorial we introduced about 14 months ago only shows how to extract media tracks out of a Matroska-formatted video file with no audio commentary. This video tutorial shows both how to extract media tracks out of a Matroska-formatted video file and how to pack audio and video tracks in the Matroska contrainer. We mainly use three applications in this tutorial: MKVToolNix, QuickTime Pro and MPEG Streamclip. The original video clip used in this video tutorial comes from Internet Archive. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. released the first line of Mac models with the latest OS release. The new line of MacBook models is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (2.0 GHz or 2.2 GHz). The price starts at $1,099 in the U.S., according to the company. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. has released OS 10.5 Leopard worldwide last Friday. Not surprisingly, some software products are compatible and others are not compatible with the latest Mac OS. Apple Discussions is flooded with concerns and complains that the new OS version is incompatible with Final Cut Studio products. How about Adobe products? Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Several hours ago, we detected a serious problem. Roxio Toast Titanium 8 crashed upon launch! Life without Toast Titanium is unthinkable. It’s possible to open some Toast disk images with DiskImageMounter. But we can’t open the ones that we badly need to use. How about Toast Titanium 7? It crashed as well. Hmm… That’s not good. So we re-installed Toast Titanium 8. And the crash problem persists. Continue reading →