About Me
Programming is my hobby. I am not a company or anything like that. I am
just one person trying to better the Macintosh experience. Im not very
good with web page development so forgive me if my site isnt very
good.
I was interested in digital video since the late 90's when Quicktime
starting providing channels. Any tiny video clip that could play on a
computer was really cool to me then. A couple of years later I was
introduced to a site called AnimeMusicVideos.org. It had a lot of cool
music videos that I loved to download. It was all good until I would
find a video I wanted, but couldn't watch it because it was a WMV or
the resolution was too high for computer to handle. It was around 2003
when I encountered a AVI file I was desperate to convert. I went to the
web for a some kind of software to make the file playable, but the only
thing I could find needed Mac OS 10.3 in order to run. I was out of
luck then with my computer running only Mac OS 10.1. I became so
desperate
that I turned to this open source program that could convert my file
into an mpeg 1 file. The problem with this program was it was a Windows
program. I actually tried this program out in Virtual PC but it was
horribly slow. After three hours of converting and not even reaching
the half way mark, I decided it was time to give up. In 2005 I decided
it was time to try to make my own converter application. My research
was slow until I encountered a program called FFmpeg. It was a command
line program that wasn't user friendly, but did work. I was able to
convert a lot of files with it. It later occurred to me that I could
make a GUI for this program that would be user friendly. So in 2008 I
started work on a project I called Flv to MPEG. This program was
suppose to be a Mac OS 9 application, but I couldn't successfully build
FFmpeg on Mac OS 9. So a moved my target OS to Mac OS X. Support for
the flv format was because it was the format used on YouTube. During
development the scope of the project was increased to support a lot of
different formats. The name was also changed to Flv Crunch. By February
2009 the program was finished and released to the web.
Freeware Programs I have created: Unplug Flv Crunch
A Tutorial I created: PowerPC App Making Using Xcode