ViewCast.com Forms Strategic Partnership with Excalibur Technologies

Agreement Puts Excalibur Video Content Management Technology in ViewCast Encoding Stations

DALLAS (June 12, 2000) � ViewCast.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: VCST), a leading provider of Internet and networked video solutions, announced today a strategic partnership and OEM agreement with Excalibur Media Services Group, a division of Excalibur Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: EXCA) and a leading provider of video content management enabling technologies.

Based on the terms of the agreement, ViewCast.com will integrate Excalibur Technologies� award-winning Screening Room� with its ViewCast� streaming media solutions. Excalibur Screening Room is a fully integrated, modular system that gives any enterprise unprecedented power to intelligently capture, manage,
re-purpose and publish video content.

"Excalibur�s Screening Room has been embraced by professional content creators in a number of industries including corporate media, broadcast, entertainment, and government," said David Nunnerley, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Excalibur Media Services Group. "Many of these customers want a single, turnkey solution. With the integration of Screening Room into the ViewCast streaming media systems � powered by ViewCast.com�s newest professional-grade Osprey Video capture cards � we can direct them to a one-box solution that delivers the quality of streaming content the broadband market requires."

"The partnership with Excalibur � with its base of professional users and the exciting new direction the company is heading with its recently announced merger with Intel�s Interactive Media Services division � is strategically consistent with ViewCast.com�s product evolution. We are increasingly targeting the professional, broadcast-quality streaming media market segments with our new lines of Osprey-2000M and Osprey-500 DVPro capture cards," said ViewCast.com President and CEO George Platt. ViewCast.com Osprey Video capture cards are considered the de facto standard for the streaming industry.

Platt added that partnering with Excalibur is consistent with ViewCast.com�s strategy to bundle best-of-breed, third party software with its turnkey ViewCast streaming media systems.

Excalibur will integrate specific capabilities of the new ViewCast.com Osprey Video capture cards within Screening Room including closed-caption data capture, "multiple-cards-in-a-box"; and other professional video streaming capabilities.

Screening Room provides advanced video capture and analysis, intelligent indexing, acceleration of the video production process and instant publishing of video content to the Internet. The system�s Capture Client enables users to archive video assets, capture existing analog or digital video, including live feeds, for fast, immediate and affordable access. It also captures associated closed-captioning text and/or provides speech-to-text conversion.

"Integrating Excalibur�s Screening Room with the ViewCast system enables users to create streaming video that can be archived, searched and re-purposed, in one turnkey solution," said Platt. "The end result is users are able to increase the value and accessibility of their video content both in-house and via the Internet � which makes streaming media information a more effective networked business communications tool and establishes new revenue streams from existing video content."

ViewCast systems are fully-configured, turnkey encoding stations and streaming servers that enable streaming media content creators � professional broadcasters, corporations, government agencies, schools and organizations � to quickly and easily add live and on-demand streaming media to their networks and Web sites.

About Excalibur

Excalibur (NASDAQ:EXCA) is the world's leading developer of advanced, search-powered, multimedia software for intelligently accessing and utilizing digital content, including text, images and video, over the Internet, intranets and extranets. Recognized for their accuracy, scalability and security, the Excalibur products family includes Screening Room� for video content management applications, RetrievalWare� for text-centric searching, WebExpress for online search applications, Excalibur Internet Spider for multimedia web crawling, CDExpress for CD publishing applications and the Visual RetrievalWare Toolkit for developing image-based search applications. Founded in 1980, Excalibur employs over 240 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Vienna, VA with offices, distributors and subsidiaries located throughout the world.

About ViewCast.com

ViewCast.com enables video communication over the Internet and corporate networks through its components, systems, and turnkey solution products. The company is known as a leading global provider of enterprise-wide, digital video communications solutions for both real-time and on-demand applications. Osprey� video capture cards and codecs, ViewCast� Streaming Video Solutions and Viewpoint VBX System� products deliver a wide array of video solutions for both analog and digital video communication systems. ViewCast.com�s "Your Video on the Web�" was the first consumer product and hosting service to bring streaming media capabilities to home users and allow small businesses to easily add video to their web sites. ViewCast.com has the ability to deliver cutting-edge networked video solutions while delivering systems to transition legacy video communication equipment. ViewCast.com products are available either directly from the company, or from leading OEMs, system integrators, leading resellers and application developers worldwide.

Visit the company�s Web site (http://www.viewcast.com) for more information.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect the Company's current judgment on certain issues. Because such statements apply to future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the Company's reports on Form 10-KSB and 10-QSB on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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