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SWR/ARD Successfully Tests Next Generation Audio with MPEG-H

Integrating immersive and personalized audio into live broadcast workflows at scale: At the SWR3 ESC Party, German public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) conducted a real-world proof of concept to evaluate MPEG-H Audio in a live production environment.

September 4, 2026
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From Microphone to Speaker – Fraunhofer IIS Presents MPEG-H Audio Real-Time Chain at IBC

Live production: MPEG-H-enabled hardware devices for live production are the first section of the chain, including a LAWO Audio production console, as well as the Jünger Audio MMA and Linear Acoustic AMS authoring and monitoring systems, which are able to generate the metadata “on the fly” during live broadcasting. Postproduction: The Fraunhofer IIS MPEG­-H Authoring Tool (MHAT) enables the creation of MPEG-­H scenes and the related metadata with existing content in postproduction...

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xHE-AAC and MPEG-D DRC Mandatory for Android Pie Devices

Earlier this month, Google announced the general availability of Android 9 “Pie”, along with the first devices incorporating the latest release of Google’s mobile operating system. Android Pie comes with a string of major upgrades in terms of audio playback, since the xHE-AAC audio codec and MPEG-D DRC Loudness and Dynamic Range metadata, both substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS, are...

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ORPHEUS – the Movie

The ORPHEUS project, pioneering the development of an end-to-end object-based media chain for audio content, was officially concluded in May 2018, when the second and final ORPHEUS workshop was held at Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in Munich. There, the ten project partners presented their findings to an auditorium filled with more than 100 broadcast and audio professionals from all over the globe. Together, the project partners have created a full set of tools and applications...