Free online VIV to AVI converter

Legacy VivoActive clips may not open in current players or editing software, while some older Windows applications require AVI. Converting the file can make it usable in those programs, although playback still depends on the codecs inside the AVI.

What the VIV format is

VIV is a legacy video format associated with VivoActive, a system for delivering video over the web. Old websites and video archives are common sources; VIV files may use Vivo codecs that many current programs do not support.

What the AVI format is

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a Microsoft container that can hold video and audio encoded with different codecs. Its support in older Windows software is an advantage, but an AVI file is not guaranteed to play everywhere: the receiving program must support the codecs used inside it.

How to convert a VIV file to AVI

Online on 101convert.com

1. Open the VIV-to-AVI converter on 101convert.com and upload the file. Check the per-file size limit shown on the page.
2. Start the conversion. It runs on the site's server with FFmpeg.
3. Download the converted AVI.

Offline with desktop software

FFmpeg is free, open-source command-line software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. To encode the video as MPEG-4 and any audio as MP3, run:

ffmpeg -i input.viv -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a? -c:v mpeg4 -q:v 4 -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 output.avi

Replace input.viv with the source filename. The optional audio mapping allows files without an audio stream; the FFmpeg build must include the libmp3lame encoder if the source has audio.

Quality and compatibility

This command re-encodes the streams, so the result may lose quality; the -q:v and -q:a values control encoding quality. MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio are common AVI choices, but check that the target program supports both. If FFmpeg reports that it cannot identify or decode the VIV file, that build cannot handle the file's particular format or codec.