DivX Chooses Sonic to Enable DVD Burning of Downloaded Video

Sonic AuthorScript Provides Easy and Convenient Way for Millions of Consumers to Enjoy DivX Content On-the-Go or in the Living Room

Novato, California (June 20, 2006) - Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, announced today that DivX Inc., the digital entertainment company that created the popular media format, has joined the long list of high-profile companies using Sonic's AuthorScript® burning engine to power reliable CD and DVD burning in their PC products. Available now on www.divx.com, the AuthorScript-enabled DivX video creation and playback applications provide consumers with the ability to burn DivX content to CD or DVD to enjoy on-the-go or in the living room on any of the tens of millions of DivX Certified DVD players worldwide.

“We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to once again collaborate with Sonic to bring a new level of entertainment enjoyment to consumers, furthering our mandate to deliver exceptional products and services that improve the digital media experience,” said Kevin Hell, Chief DivX Officer, Partners and Licensing at DivX, Inc. “AuthorScript lived up to its strong reputation by enabling the easy integration of powerful burning capabilities and ensuring the highest level of compatibility with the extensive range of DivX Certified set-top and portable DVD players.”

Sonic AuthorScript is the industry standard for a broad range of developers requiring a quick and easy solution for integrating robust DVD and CD recording and playback capabilities into their products, including hardware and software applications, music download sites, consumer electronics devices, and products incorporating the next-generation high-definition optical media formats. AuthorScript provides its users the assurance that their DVDs are of the highest quality and are compatible with virtually all of the world's more than one billion DVD players.

“With DivX being one of the most popular video formats of all time, integrating AuthorScript into the extensive DivX product line provides Sonic with an excellent avenue for reaching potentially hundreds of millions of new users with our technology,” said Mark Ely, executive vice president, strategy, at Sonic. “We are very excited to be deepening our relationship with DivX and providing consumers with new ways to experience, share and store their video content.”

Today's announcement extends a long-standing relationship between Sonic Solutions and DivX Inc., as Sonic's consumer Mac and PC digital media software applications provide support for the DivX format, including the industry-leading Roxio Toast®, Popcorn 2, and Roxio Easy Media Creator® product lines.

For more information about AuthorScript visit www.sonic.com/products/Developer/Authorscript/ or e-mail authorscript@sonic.com .

About DivX

DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 180 million times in the last four years, including over 50 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application. We distribute this software from our website, DivX.com, which averaged over five million unique visitors per month during the first quarter of 2006. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Over 35 million DivX Certified hardware devices have been shipped worldwide, including approximately 8.5 million devices reported to us by our customers during the fourth quarter of 2005. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.

About Sonic Solutions

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software, providing a broad range of interoperable, platform independent software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users, and technology partners. Sonic’s products range from advanced DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies used to produce the majority of Hollywood DVD film releases, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup solutions that have become the premiere choice for consumers, prosumers and business users worldwide.

Sonic products are globally available from major retailers, online at Sonic.com and Roxio.com, and are bundled with PCs, after-market drives and consumer electronic devices. Sonic’s digital media creation engine is the de facto standard and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

For more information, Contact:

Rosie Tickner
Roxio
rosie.tickner@roxio.com