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Sorenson Media introduces Squeeze 8

• x264 codec integration and optimization for any H.264 encoding
• Squeeze Server integration
• New Adaptive Bit-Rate Streaming formats
• Improved YouTube Publishing Option
• Audio Sync filter
• Improved GPU Acceleration

For a detailed overview, see What's New in Squeeze 8.


*Installing Squeeze on Mac OS 10.7 Lion?*

If you get an error message saying Squeeze cannot read your serial key or you need to check or repair your permissions in Mac OS 10.7 Lion please follow these steps:

1. Open Finder and go to your "Macintosh HD."
2. Right-click on the "Library" folder and select “Get Info”
3. In the Info window click the padlock at the bottom and enter your admin password.
4. Under "Sharing and Permissions" click the [+] and add your user name to the list and click "OK."
5. Change your Privileges to “Read and Write”
6. Close the Info window for the "Library" folder

7. Open the "Library" folder
8. Find the "Preferences" folder, right-click it and select “Get Info”
9. In the Info window click the padlock at the bottom and enter your admin password.
10. Under "Sharing and Permissions" click the [+] and add your user name to the list and click "OK."
11. Change your Privileges to “Read and Write”
12. Close the Info window for the "Preferences" folder

13. Open the "Preferences" folder
14. Find a file named “com.SorensonMedia.Squeeze 6.plist” and/or "com.SorensonMedia.Squeeze 4.plist" and delete it (If there are more than one .plist files with Sorenson Media or Squeeze in the name, delete them all.)

15. Run the Squeeze installer once more. You can download it from www.sorensonmedia.com/downloads

It is recommended you delete the special permissions you added to the Library and Preferences folder above after Squeeze is successfully installed.

*Note: Mac users updating to Mac OS 10.7 Lion, please update your NVIDIA CUDA driver with the developer driver here: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-40#MacOS