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{{About-distinguish|the streaming media platform|vivo (technology company)|VIVO (software)}} {{multiple issues| {{notability|Products|date=February 2013}}{{refimprove|date=September 2014}}}} '''Vivo Software''' was a pioneer internet [[streaming media]] company which was acquired by [[RealNetworks]] in March 1998. Vivo Software designed the ''Vivo Video/Audio platform'', including its encoding tools and end-user ''VivoActive Player''. The Vivo format, obsolete today, was one of the first to be designed and used for internet streaming. The Vivo platform was a well-known player when streaming media was in its infancy and was deployed mainly on erotic sites during the mid-1990s. Since then [[RealPlayer]], [[QuickTime]] and [[Windows Media]] have evolved as the dominant platforms.{{update-inline |date=October 2023}} The development of Vivo ceased in 1997 to be replaced by RealPlayer from [[RealNetworks]]. ==VivoActive== {{Infobox software | name = VivoActive | logo = [[Image:VivoActive.png]] | caption = VivoActive | developer = Vivo Software / [[RealNetworks]] | operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows]] | genre = Audio/Video Codec | license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] }} '''VivoActive''' is an audio/video format created by Vivo Software, acquired by [[RealNetworks]] in 1997. The Vivo format is based upon [[H.263]] video and [[G.723]] [[ADPCM]] audio (not the [[G.723.1]] speech codec). It uses [[Inter frame|inter-frame coding]], but does not insert any [[key frame]]s, except at the beginning of the clip, which effectively disables the possibility of seeking to specific locations in the stream. One of the last released versions of VivoActive Player added a [[workaround]] for this handicap by quickly decoding all frames from the first one to the requested position. [[MPlayer]] is able to play and convert Vivo video clips. ==Playback== The official client (The VivoActive Player) was limited. Current available clients are: *[[Mplayer]] β http://www.mplayerhq.hu *[[RealPlayer]] β http://www.real.com<ref name="vivoreal">[http://real.lithium.com/real/board/message?board.id=realplayer&message.id=13260 Vivo RealPlayer Plug-In]</ref> *VivoActive Browser Plug-in β [https://web.archive.org/web/19990423194011/http://egg.real.com/vivo-player/vivodl.html] ==See also== *[[RealMedia]] *[[RealNetworks]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/video/vnd.vivo Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for vivo] * [http://egg.real.com/vivo-player/vivodl.html VivoActive Browser Plug-In Download] * [http://investor.realnetworks.com/faq.cfm?faqid=2 RealNetworks Acquisition History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404051612/http://investor.realnetworks.com/faq.cfm?faqid=2 |date=2016-04-04 }} * [https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Vivo Multimedia Vivo] [[Category:Defunct software companies of the United States]] [[Category:Software companies disestablished in 1998]] [[Category:Video codecs]] [[Category:Audio codecs]] [[Category:RealNetworks]] [[Category:1998 mergers and acquisitions]] {{multimedia-software-stub}}
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