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Dec. 10, 2004
CyberLink Licenses Leading DivX Pro™ Video Technology for Complete Line of Multimedia Software Products

Professional Version of DivX Video Technology to be Bundled With All CyberLink Products Sold in Retail and Online Outlets
<San Diego, CA and Taipei, Taiwan - December 10, 2004 - DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the revolutionary, patent-pending DivXR video compression technology, and CyberLink, in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, today announced a wide-ranging partnership to bring the power of professional video creation to worldwide consumers. Under the agreement, CyberLink has licensed DivX Pro? video technology to include in all retail and online versions of their multimedia software products, including PowerDVD, PowerDVD Copy, PowerDirector, PowerProducer, and Power2Go and more.

"CyberLink, a true innovator in the field of digital video software, has long been a valued DivXNetworks partner," said Chester Ng, Senior Sales Manager at DivXNetworks, Inc. "By bundling DivX Pro in their complete product line, CyberLink will enable all their users to create the highest quality digital video files at sizes small enough to be burned to a standard data CD and easily played back on over 100 different brands of DivX Certified DVD players from major manufacturers, more than 20 million of which will ship worldwide by the end of 2004."

DivX is among the world's most popular video technologies with over 160 million global users. DivX Pro, the professional version of video technology, enables unsurpassed visual quality and compression through proprietary encoding tools and techniques including bi-directional encoding, DivX Elektrocompressiongraph? (EKG) technology, psychovisual modeling, source pre-processing and more. All DivX Certified consumer electronics, including DVD players from partners including Philips, Samsung, JVC and more, support the full playback of DivX video files created using CyberLink software products.

"DivX Pro is one of the most popular video formats for its outstanding video quality and performance." said Alice C. Chang, CEO of CyberLink, "We are glad to work with DivXNetworks to provide this video format in CyberLink's line of multimedia software products."

To learn more about licensing DivX Pro software, visit http://www.divxnetworks.com/solutions/licensing.php. For more information on CyberLink, see www.gocyberlink.com.

About DivXNetworks
DivXNetworks is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX R video codec, among the world's most popular video compression technologies with over 160 million users worldwide. Often called "the MP3 of video," the patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivXNetworks is headquartered in San Diego, California, with satellite offices in Los Angeles and San Jose, CA, Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan, Guildford, England and Paris, France.


About CyberLink Corp.

Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solution for the Digital Home. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Solutions and Training Solutions. Digital Multimedia Solutions includes DVD Burning and Creativity Products focus on media creation by advancing the technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media, and Digital Entertainment products provide high quality media enjoyment on the PC by perfecting state-of-the-art audio-video technologies. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into home theaters and digital video centers. The company's Training Solutions include authoring tools for creating training content and training management systems that offer an easy and cost effective way to deliver and manage training programs over corporate intranets or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (5203.TW). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarter is in Taipei. http://www.gocyberlink.com/


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