Sonic AuthorScript Licensed for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
October 13, 2004
Marin County, CA - Sonic Solutions' AuthorScript, the company's DVD and CD formatting and burning engine, has been included in Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, recently unveiled. Sonic AuthorScript is integrated within Media Center Edition 2005, giving users the ability to burn recorded TV shows, videos and photo slideshows to DVD-Videos directly from Media Center Edition.
Sonic and Microsoft entered into a multi-year licensing deal in January 2002 in which Microsoft licensed Sonic’s DVD-Video authoring technology. Under that agreement, Sonic is providing core DVD technology and development expertise to Microsoft. This latest agreement between the two companies enables Microsoft to embed Sonic’s AuthorScript formatting and burning engine in Windows Media Center Edition 2005 and includes AuthorScript modules for DVD-Video formatting and burning, DVD-Video slideshow creation and burning, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM data burning, and CD-Audio burning.
With the combination of easy-to-navigate menus, a remote control, and the built-in AuthorScript modules in Media Center Edition, it is now easier than ever for users to browse through their digital media – TV shows, videos, music, photos – and record them to disc. Through AuthorScript’s Fit-to-DVD? feature, in which AuthorScript automatically optimizes DVD video quality to perfectly fit the selected shows onto a disc, users can opt for any recording-quality setting in Media Center Edition without worrying whether or not their recorded shows will fit on a DVD.
AuthorScript also incorporates Sonic’s SmartStyles technology, which replicates the same “look and feel” of the Media Center Edition user interface in the DVD-Video disc menus, giving users a consistent and familiar experience when they play the DVDs they create. AuthorScript also enhances the Windows Movie Maker feature of Windows XP Media Center Edition, enabling users to burn their edited videos to DVD directly from within Windows Movie Maker.
About Sonic AuthorScript
Sonic AuthorScript is the world's leading engine for the creation and burning of DVDs and CDs on PCs and CE devices. Available as a software development kit (SDK) with extensive APIs, AuthorScript makes it easy for application developers to add a broad range of CD and DVD technologies into their applications and to support the widest array of CD and DVD burners. A flexible solution, AuthorScript contains modules for converting video and audio data into DVD- and VCD-compliant streams, formatting and burning DVD-Video and VCD projects, data mastering on recordable CDs and DVDs, music CD ripping and burning, DVR recording and time-shifting, and DVD-Video and VCD playback. AuthorScript also includes comprehensive support for recording and editing in the DVD-VR and DVD+RW (+VR) formats.
AuthorScript has been licensed by industry-leading companies including Adobe, Avid, Microsoft, Sony, and Time Warner. It is the underlying engine in Sonic's DVD and CD applications including MyDVD, DVDit, and RecordNow.
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