Envivio introduces EnvivioTV™, the world's first ISO/MPEG-4 complete media player
IBC, Amsterdam, September 14, 2001: Envivio introduced today EnvivioTV™, the world's first ISO/MPEG-4 complete media player, supporting streaming, local playback and digital rights protection of MPEG-4 audio, video and mixed media streams for the Internet and broadcast networks. The EnvivioTV player is available today for download on the Envivio.com web site.
EnvivioTV is the first MPEG-4 player available implementing the MPEG-4 Advanced2D graphics profile, providing content designers with the ability to create standards-based mixed media content. Standards-based mixed media provides content providers with the capability to stream or locally play rich media content based on the ISO/MPEG-4 open standard. Existing content such as audio, video, graphics, text and 2D animations (such as Macromedia Flash) can be easily converted into a single MPEG-4 file with the software solution Envivio sells today for production and distribution of MPEG-4 content. The MPEG-4 file or stream can then be distributed over virtually any network and played on any MPEG-4 compliant device, which gives content providers and distribution networks a single non-proprietary standard for worldwide multimedia distribution. Through Envivio's partnership with Sigma Designs and other broadcast hardware companies, Envivio provides a standards-based path for content to be viewed in future devices such as digital set top boxes, mobile phones, and new media display devices. MPEG-4 mixed media and EnvivioTV changes the way video, data and interactivity can be constructed and distributed through the Internet, Cable and Satellite networks today.
EnvivioTV is also the first MPEG-4 standards based plug-in to the QuickTime and Real players. This allows MPEG-4 media to play in the leading streaming media player platforms without requiring the viewer to necessarily download new viewing programs. Content distributors can ensure users will experience the same presentation if they use either Real or QuickTime. By providing a layer of interoperability that works between clients, content providers have the capability to decrease encoding and distribution costs.
Finally, Envivio is the first company to provide integration of standards based Digital Rights Management. Envivio has currently integrated the Intertrust DRM solution to provide a complete solution. Content distributors can optionally utilize IPMP (Intellectual Property Management Protocol) in order to protect content. Combined with Envivio partners, such as Intertrust, Envivio's solution provides a seamless way to protect, stream, and view content without fear of digital piracy; protecting content is the minimum requirement for enabling content developers to place their valuable high quality content onto the Internet. Through its partners, the company plans to enhance interoperability and functionality so providers can have security choices that were unavailable before today.
Julien Signes, Envivio Chairman and CTO declared: " We are very proud to release EnvivioTV, the first player bringing to the industry all the benefits of the MPEG-4 standard today. EnvivioTV is the first player to support Audio and Video streaming, combined with Digital Rights Management and Mixed media capabilities into a single, standards-based content format. We believe it will greatly benefit the streaming and broadcast industry in order to experiment and deploy MPEG-4 based services today, and accelerate the proliferation of on demand and rich media services end users demand."
About Envivio:
Envivio.com, Inc. is the leading developer of end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive broadcasting solutions utilizing MPEG-4's rich set of integrated streaming media elements: high performance audio and video, two dimensional graphics and animation, and rich interactive user experience. The company maintains a worldwide perspective on creating MPEG-4-based solutions to enable broadcasters, distribution network operators and content developers to build new revenues and utilize the efficiencies of targeting content at the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. The Envivio Solution includes various components to create, encode, protect and distribute MPEG-4 content: the Envivio Encoding Station for offline encoding and protection of MPEG-4 audio and video, the Envivio Broadcast Studio for authoring complete MPEG-4 applications, the Envivio Media Server, to distribute MPEG-4 content over the Web and broadcast networks, and EnvivioTV™ to retrieve and playback MPEG-4 content. The company is privately held and has received investments from Royal Philips Electronics, France Telecom, Sigma Designs, Aurora Ventures, Global Accelerator and other leading broadband media investors. For further information, visit us at www.envivio.com
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