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HEURIS Ships all new Xtractor™ Product

HEURIS Ships New Product for Extracting Files from DVDs.

St. Louis, March 19, 2002—HEURIS, makers of the most widely used MPEG Encoding Software, MPEG Power Professional announced today that they are shipping a new product called the Xtractor. The Xtractor can be used to extract or "rip" audio and video files from unencrypted DVDs. Users can demultiplex and extract elementary streams from MPEG 1 system streams, MPEG 2 program streams, and MPEG 2 transport streams, including HDTV streams recorded with a DTV decoder card. The extractor can also be used to extract DVD VR formatted MPEG streams recorded with Hitachi DZMV100 DVD camera or Panasonic's DMR-E20 line of DVD recorders. This gives users the ability to add new and different audio tracks to encoded video streams or simply to recover elementary streams from a finished DVD project.

The HEURIS Xtractor is compatible with MAC OS and Windows operating systems and features an easy to use, drag and drop interface. Users simply, select an output folder, drag and drop the MPEG file onto Xtractor, and the MPEG elementary streams are extracted and saved to the output directory.

"HEURIS is pleased to offer this simple yet important utility," said HEURIS President, Brian Quandt. "Our customers have asked for the ability to go back and add different tracks to a previously encoded unencrypted project. This product allows them to do just that--effortlessly and cost effectively."

Pricing and Availability

The Xtractor is currently available directly from HEURIS for $149. Customers may call HEURIS sales or purchase the product online at www.heuris.com.

About HEURIS

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the developer of the most widely used professional software MPEG encoder, MPEG Power Professional. This award winning, cross platform software product is the first MPEG encoder to deliver the features and encoding quality demanded by professionals, without the expensive hardware. HEURIS has been working with MPEG since 1991, and its customers include: Walt Disney, Sea World, Apple Computers, The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Taco Bell Corporation, The Home Depot, AT & T Labs, IBM, Boeing, Vanderbilt University, Boston Museum of Science and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.heuris.com.

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