RAVISENT DVD and MP3 Add-On Packs Available for Microsoft Windows XP

Business Wire, Oct 25, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2001

RAVISENT Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:RVST), a software and intellectual property licensing company, today announced the release of RAVISENT's CineMaster(R) DVD Pack and CineMaster MP3 Creation Pack for Windows XP.

These two products are being offered as plug-in solutions to the Windows Media Player for Windows XP. The CineMaster DVD Pack is a DirectShow-compliant MPEG-2 decoder pack designed to enable Windows XP users to view DVD movies and videos utilizing the Windows Media Player. The CineMaster DVD pack enjoys such features as chapter listings, and full screen playback controls.

The CineMaster MP3 Creation Pack for Windows XP provides an excellent solution for an MP3 codec for Windows XP, enabling Windows XP users to create locally ripped content in the MP3 format with Windows Media Player for Windows XP.

The combination of the Windows Media Player for Windows XP, with RAVISENT's solution, offers Windows XP users a full-featured DVD playback and MP3 audio quality sound creation.

Availability and Price

Microsoft streamlines the purchasing and downloads of RAVISENT CineMaster DVD & MP3 Packs for Windows XP through links to RAVISENT's website from Windows Media Technologies web site.

PC users can purchase the add-on packs directly from the RAVISENT retail site at http://www.ravisentdirect.com. The RAVISENT retail site also contains information on minimum system requirements and a list of graphics adapters and sound cards compatibility to ensure maximum use of the RAVISENT's DVD decoder.

RAVISENT's CineMaster Packs for Windows XP are available in the following pricing configurations:

-- RAVISENT CineMaster MP3 Creation for $9.95

-- RAVISENT CineMaster DVD Pack for $14.95

-- RAVISENT CineMaster MP3 and DVD together for $19.95

About CineMaster(R) DVD

RAVISENT's CineMaster DVD Engine is a cross-platform, high-performance DVD and MPEG-2 decoding solution designed to decode and playback DVD-Video, MPEG Video and Broadcast MPEG Video content.

CineMaster DVD can be integrated with a variety of digital media processing components to deliver decoding capabilities, as well as support cutting-edge HDTV (High Definition Television) decoding.

CineMaster digital media components meet the requirements of the DVD Forum, the Content Scrambling System (CSS), Dolby, and Macrovision, and assist OEMs to meet rapidly changing consumer preferences in record time at a low cost.

RAVISENT MP3 Creation Pack for Windows XP

RAVISENT MP3 Creation Pack for Windows XP offers playback support of MP3 files. It offers an integrated MP3 playback, management and search in both the file system and the Windows Media Player.

MP3 media information such as album, artist, and year of publication can be displayed and edited directly with the Windows Media Player Media Library. Transfer MP3 files to portable devices and burn audio CDs from MP3 files that play in any CD player and data CDs with MP3 for native playback on MP3 compatible CD players and much more.

Visit our website at http://www.ravisentdirect.com for more information on these and other RAVISENT products.

About RAVISENT Technologies Inc.

RAVISENT is a software and intellectual property licensing company. RAVISENT's solutions are incorporated in products from leading personal computer and peripheral manufacturers, including Compaq, Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Elsa, Matrox, and ATI Technologies.

Founded in 1994, RAVISENT is a global company, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with offices in Silicon Valley and Japan. On June 28, 2001, RAVISENT announced that it has offered to purchase all of the outstanding shares of eMation, Ltd. in exchange for 8 million shares of RAVISENT common stock and the assumption by RAVISENT of $5 million of eMation indebtedness.

The acquisition of eMation is subject to a number of closing conditions including, but not limited to, the approval by RAVISENT stockholders. More information about RAVISENT is available at www.ravisent.com.

All companies and product names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that relate to RAVISENT's future business and financial performance. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual events of future results to differ from those discussed herein.

Such factors include, among others: RAVISENT's ability to consummate the acquisition of eMation and to achieve any benefits from the acquisition, the possibility that the closing conditions to the acquisition of eMation may not be satisfied and that the acquisition may not occur, the viability of DRM technology, the potential for growth in the pervasive computing market; RAVISENT's recent change in its business model, its limited operating history, fluctuating quarterly operating results, expectation of future losses, anticipated price declines in products, dependence on its current product lines, dependence on a small number of customers, lack of long-term commitments with customers, dependence on manufacturers and strategic relationships, product delays, the difficulty of protecting proprietary rights, the ability to manage growth and attract and retain additional personnel, the potential for defects in its products, risks from international operations, its ability to raise capital in the future, its dependence on the personal computer and consumer electronics industries, competition, its ability to manage technological change and respond to evolving industry standards, and government regulation.