March 19, 2000----Taipei, Taiwan---- CyberLink, a leading developer of digital video and streaming multimedia software applications, today announced it will soon be releasing StreamAuthor, an advanced software program for developing, managing, and delivering sophisticated streaming media-rich presentations on-line. With StreamAuthor, corporate and educational institutions will be able to develop dynamic, interactive streaming presentations that they can deliver to their audience over the Internet or on an Intranet. It is an ideal solution for numerous applications, such as business communications, distance learning, customer service, online seminars, and sales presentations. StreamAuthor will be in display for the first time in Europe at the coming CeBIT Show in Germany.

In an increasingly knowledge-based society, the importance of effectively and creatively delivering information is of utmost importance. To truly succeed in today's world individuals and institutions must be able to develop, share, and communicate information, both internally and externally, with a high level of effectiveness. StreamAuthor provides corporate and educational institutions with the ability to do just that through numerous advanced features that can produce and deliver beneficial and targeted media-rich presentations to their audience.

StreamAuthor's advanced features offer the ability to encode video from numerous input sources and turn it into a streamable file, synchronize their video with PowerPointTM slides, to capture movements on the PC monitor screen as a video file, convert existing files into a streamable format, and to publish contents on the Web. All of these tools provide maximum control and flexibility in giving the most innovative and effective media-rich presentations possible on the Internet or Intranet.

Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corp. states "StreamAuthor allows users to go beyond simple streaming video content. They can tailor state-of-the-art streaming media presentations to their audience with a program that offers a complete range of features, inexpensive production costs and fast turn-around times. Thus, assuring the ability to deliver the right message, at the right time, to the right audience".

StreamAuthor offers corporate and educational institutions a straightforward and simple way to develop the most advanced media-rich streaming presentations:

Easily Encodes Video and Makes it Streamable: Imports video from numerous capture devices, such as Camcorders, PC Cameras, TV Tuners, etc., in MPEG-1 or WMV format. StreamAuthor supports MBR (Multiple Bit-Rate) encoding, so that users can record one file and use it for streaming across various different bandwidths.

Synchronizes Video with PowerPointTM Slides: StreamAuthor lets users take any series of PowerPoint slides and synchronize them with a video file to create a media-rich presentation for the Web or intranet. Users can take live or recorded video content and make it flow in sequence with their presentation slides, to enhance their message and establish interactivity.

Captures Movements on the Monitor as a Video File: Extremely useful for those wishing to deliver training, customer support, and software demonstrations to users. Plus, because of StreamAuthor's high compression ratio, the files can be viewed in high quality, even with a dial-up connection.

Converts Files Into a Streaming Format: StreamAuthor provides the ability to convert existing video files, such as: MPEG, AVI, MP3, WAV, in to either MPEG-1 or Windows Media Format. This offers a great deal of flexibility in creating streaming presentation projects.

Publishing Presentation is Effortless: Uploading media-rich productions to the Internet is an straightforward affair with the aid of i-Publisher; StreamAuthor's Web site. Here users can place files on the i-Publisher streaming server for free, with a total file size limitation of 50MB. They can manage their StreamAuthor files there and also make them accessible to others, for a 30-day share period.

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StreamAuthor will be ready for shipment in April 2001. A Trial version will be available for free download at the CyberLink software soon. For press evaluations, please contact press@goCyberlink.com.

About CyberLink Corp.
CyberLink Corporation develops award winning software solutions utilizing digital video and audio kernel technology. The company fully utilizes the powers of today's personal computer and Internet connectivity to create new applications that maximize personal video entertainment, enhance visual communication and increase corporate productivity. Today, CyberLink offers two major product lines: Digital Video Applications and Streaming Multimedia Solutions. Digital Video Applications focus on providing video/audio playback and recording capabilities on the personal computer. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for building home theaters and digital video centers right from today's mainstream computers. Streaming Multimedia Solutions offer breakthrough technologies to stream and manage high-quality, media-rich contents on the Internet.