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xHE-AAC Audio Encoding becomes a Standard Feature in Android 17  

Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, is proud to announce that Google’s latest iteration of Android OS 17 now mandates encoding and decoding of the world’s most efficient stereo audio format.

March 30, 2026
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MPEG-H Audio Trial During European Athletics Championships 2018

[caption id="attachment_1484" align="alignright" width="300"] © Fraunhofer IIS[/caption] The various feeds were multiplexed for a live transmission via the Eurovision satellite network to RAI's experimental test bed in the Aosta Valley, Italy, and via the Eurovision fiber infrastructure to the European Championships Broadcast Operations Centre (BOC) based at BBC Glasgow. MPEG-H Audio was used for several different feeds and the Fraunhofer IIS engineering team worked closely with...

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Fraunhofer IIS MPEG-H Authoring Plug-in Now Available for Download

MPEG­-H Audio supports several use cases for interactivity of object­-based audio, such as defining of switching groups or presets for selection by the end-user. MPEG-H metadata contains all relevant information for reproduction and rendering in arbitrary reproduction layouts: in­formation about the audio components inside the bit stream and their hierarchical structure, as well as restrictive...

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Fraunhofer IIS introduces SDK for JPEG XS image coding

Increasing amounts of permanent data with high resolution and high dynamic range will briefly swamp the transmission capabilities over long-distance cable lengths in studio environments, and while using existing coaxial cabling solutions. These trends in substituting specialized cables and switches for video transmission by commercial off the shelf (COTS) components and forcing the use of simple, cost-effective IP transmission over standard Ethernet infrastructures are important...