For people who seek better quality video streams on their mobile phones, Ideaworks3D Ltd today announced that CRI Middleware have ported their Sofdec advanced video streaming technology to Airplay, and thus to a wide range of smartphone platforms.

Airplay is a unique cross-platform technology for creating best-in-class native applications on mobile and handheld devices, enabling developers to build a single application binary and deploy it unmodified to all supported operating systems and devices.

CRI Sofdec is an industry-leading high performance software movie decoder for games, which has been optimized for the underlying platform and CPU architecture to realize the highest possible quality movies on game consoles, mobile devices and embedded systems. CRI Sofdec enables more than simple movie playback; other unique features include in-game effects such as scene compatibility with movie and multi-stream movie playback.

Airplay was nominated in the “Technical Innovation” category, alongside leading PC and console middleware, at the European Develop Excellence Awards 2008.

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