Vividas Holdings Pty Ltd (formerly Vividas Plc, formerly E-genie Australia Pty Ltd) 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 Network
  Content Delivery Network
  A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
  
  s: 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

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Australia.

External links

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