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Avid and Fraunhofer IIS Bring MPEG-H Audio into Pro Tools

Avid today announced native support for MPEG-H Audio in Pro Tools Studio and Pro Tools Ultimate, available with the Pro Tools 2026.4 release. 

April 30, 2026
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AudioLabs researcher receives KlarText Award

Yesterday, Christof Weiß, who works at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, received the KlarText Award – the Klaus Tschira Foundation’s prize for science communication. His winning entry in the Computer Science category was entitled Das ist Haydn. Ganz sicher! and explains in an easy to understand manner the key ideas and results of his doctoral thesis about algorithms that can recognize musical styles.

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Siegfried Fößel Appointed Head of Technology Study Program at HFF Munich

Dr. Siegfried Fößel, who leads the Moving Picture Technologies department at Fraunhofer IIS, has been appointed as the new head of the Technology study program at the University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich. Alongside his industry duties, he will be joining the department chair Prof. Peter C. Slansky in advancing current developments in this HFF department.

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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...