ViewCast.com Announces Support for Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 4.0

Dallas, Texas, April 13, 1999 – ViewCast.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCST), a leading supplier of components, systems, and turnkey solutions for video communications and Internet video streaming, announced today that it will support Microsoft's new Windows Media Technologies 4.0. The beta release of this software became available today. ViewCast.com delivers the ViewCast� Video Streaming system – the industry's first turnkey solution for Microsoft Windows Media Technologies, the Opsrey� -100 video capture card -- the industry's de facto standard for video streaming and the Osprey� -1000 codec card.

Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 4.0 enables high-quality Internet streaming and consists of Windows Media Player, Windows Media Services and Windows Media Tools. The new version offers several advancements including increased quality, better performance and improved ease of use. ViewCast.com's Osprey-100 video capture card has been widely used with earlier versions of Windows Media Technologies and is ideally suited for the new 4.0 version of the Windows Media Encoder. It delivers up to 30 frames per second of high-quality video for the most demanding video streaming applications and provides the quality and performance Windows Media Technologies 4.0 demands.

"We eagerly support Microsoft Windows Media Technologies, a solution that promises to realize terrific acceptance in the exploding Internet streaming video market. The combination of ViewCast.com's ViewCast streaming systems, Osprey video cards and Microsoft Windows Media Technologies offer customers a high-quality, reliable, and cost-effective Internet streaming solution," said Bill Jobe, Chairman and CEO of ViewCast.com.

"ViewCast.com's products are a great complement to the Windows Media Technologies," said Will Poole, senior director of marketing and business development, Streaming Media Division at Microsoft Corp. "We're pleased that ViewCast.com is taking advantage of the new features in Windows Media Technologies 4.0 to offer improved solutions for our mutual customers."