Intervideo Launches Winrip Mp3 Player/Encoder With Data Injection Capability - Product Announcement

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, Nov 13, 2000

InterVideo, Inc., the leading developer of PC multimedia software, has unveiled WinRip(TM), its new MP3 player/encoder containing its exclusive, patent-pending InterVideo Data Injection (IDI) technology.

WinRip's unique data injection features give OEMs, content owners, and content aggregators broad new opportunities to extend MP3 music tracks with lyrics, links to URLs, promotional offers and much more, greatly enhancing the user experience for any fan of digital music.

WinRip, which debuts this month in a Lite version at Fall Comdex, also serves as the first audio component in InterVideo's new WinCinema(TM) integrated all-software suite for PC multimedia users. The suite brings a full complement of multimedia applications into one easy-to-use package, giving users a complete and robust multimedia solution that can control virtually all recording, editing, encoding, and playback needs. The full-featured version of WinRip, offering MP3-to-CD/R-RW burning capability and other feature enhancements, will be available in January 2001.

The software, available to end-users, OEMs, artists, music portals and other Web-based music content owners, has all the features music aficionados have come to expect from top-quality MP3 record/playback software. WinRip offers CD-to-MP3 file transfer, user-defined music file management, smart search capability (artist, genre, etc.), and DSP effects such as echo, surround, and concert hall. WinRip also lets users change the look and feel of the product with a number of downloadable "skins", and enables them to enhance the playback environment with colorful graphics that respond to music tempo and dynamics.

Additionally, WinRip users can click through to artist and special interest sites, MP3 portals and more via a number of hot links. When combined with several other elements of the WinCinema suite -- WinDVR(TM), WinDTV(TM), and InterVideo's award-winning signature product, WinDVD(TM) -- music and video lovers will enjoy a single, convergent environment for all major forms of entertainment media.