Using open source software

Vividas would like to thank the open source community for providing such excellent quality software products such as FFMPEG. We use such software projects for accelerating our development time lines, so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Most products come ready to go, some require modifications. The FFMPEG library required some special tweaks for it to work with our software, however these tweaks are more specific to our requirements and we do not believe they’ll enhance the capabilities of the FFMPEG product substantially, hence our decision not to submit them back to the development team. To comply with the LGPL obligations, we publish the changes here.

Vividas would also like to thank the following open source teams (in no particular order of preference) that have helped make our lives easier:

- OpenBSD for their hardened OS
- Apache for their web server
- FreeBSD for their solid and flexible server environment
- Openwebmail for their webmail application
- PHP for their language
- Ubuntu for their Linux Distro
- Expat for their C XML parsing classes
- Independent JPEG Group for their reference JPEG code.
- Xiph Foundation for Vorbis and Speex.
- MySQL for their DataBase