Vividas

Vividas Holdings Pty Ltd (formerly Vividas Plc, formerly E-genie Australia Pty Ltd^[1]) is a software company situated in Australia in August 2000.

The Vividas player client technology is multi-architectural (relying on Java or ActiveX for Windows only playback) and multi-platform (running natively on Win32 and both Mac Intel and Mac OS X PPC). JNI architecture limits the application to certain devices and platforms.

Technology

The technology is based on 4 parts:

• On2 VP6 compression/decompression: The compression technology responsible for the quality of the presentation.
• Xiph Ogg Vorbis: The audio playback compression/decompression component.
• Java Runtime or ActiveX: Responsible for playback, network retrieval and connection speed determination.
• Content Delivery Networks: Storage and Delivery of the video files from companies such as Akamai, Limelight, etc.

Uses

Vividas technology is used to provide streaming video content for

• Advertising, Marketing and Communications
• Corporate Communication
• Entertainment - Film, Music and Sports

Offices are in Melbourne, Australia.

References

External links

• Vividas
• Press Releases
• In depth overview of .viv (Vividas) format
• Decryption/Parser C Library