MARLBORO, Mass­-(Jan. 25, 2001 ) Media 100 today announced the immediate availability of its accelerated MPEG-2 encoding solution for Cleaner 5 - Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger. This adds cross-platform MPEG-2 acceleration capabilities to Media 100's award-winning Cleaner 5 interactive streaming media authoring solution, allowing media encoding professionals to create MPEG-2 content for DVD, Super Video CD, CD-ROM and digital media broadcasting from within a single solution.

With these added features, media professionals will be able to turn all popular video, audio and animation file formats into MPEG streams for high-quality delivery via various mediums. Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger is a hardware-accelerated MPEG solution for Cleaner 5, which leverages accelerated MPEG technology developed by Media 100 for faster MPEG-2 encoding.

"Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger is the first accelerated encoding option that significantly adds value to Cleaner 5--we're boosting the performance of our MPEG-2 encoding capability, and that's a huge win for our customers," said Steve Manousos, vice president of sales and marketing for the Media 100 software division. "We're leveraging our technology expertise to help our customers create MPEG-2 content faster than they ever could before, and with unparalleled image quality."

Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger features:

-- Speed: Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger is up to 10x faster than comparable software-based solutions;

-- Control: Customize virtually all aspects of MPEG-2 encoding. Use Cleaner 5's batch processing to create MPEG streams and all other streaming formats from a single file;

-- Ease-of-use: Includes presets for all popular MPEG encoding situations;

-- Quality: Encoder plus Cleaner's processing yields high-quality;

-- Integration: Encode MPEG directly from Cleaner. DirectExport from many popular video editors;

Pricing and Availability

Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger is available directly from Media 100, as well as through selected resellers worldwide, for $999. For additional information on all of these solutions, visit www.media100.com.

About Media 100

Media 100 is a leading supplier of software, systems and services for streaming media on the Internet. Media 100 develops software and systems that simplify the creation and delivery of video on the Internet, DVD and CD-ROM.

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