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.

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VRIF Publishes First Set of Industry Guidelines at CES

The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) announced the availability of its first set of Virtual Reality (VR) Industry Guidelines at CES 2018. The guidelines include topics relevant for VR content production, distribution, security and consumption. VRIF, of which Fraunhofer IIS is a charter member, presented the new guidelines in a two-hour masterclass at CES 2018, where it also outlined a 2018 roadmap and presented VR demos, including Fraunhofer’s Immersive Audio and tiled media...

MPEG-H TV-sets

New Products Supporting MPEG-H Audio Hitting the Market

New UHD TV Platforms with MPEG-H TV Audio System decoder from MStar and Realtek The T12 UHD TV system-on-chip (SOC) platform by MStar Semiconductor is the latest UHD TV platform to support MPEG-H that is available immediately to interested manufacturers. The T12 is MStar’s mainstream UHD SOC platform. It supports ATSC 3.0 and DVB T2/S2 in connection with HEVC and HDR, and is typically used for high to middle-end television products. With the addition of the MPEG-H TV Audio System...