April 14, 2023-- Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio codecs, and MainConcept, a leading provider of video and audio codecs, plugins, and applications to the production, ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, is pleased to announce the extension of its AAC family software license agreement with Google.

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer’s ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

It’s hard to believe that the first Internet radio broadcast took place just 20 years ago. Today, tens of millions of people stream Internet radio to their smartphones, tablets and other connected ...

From a technical perspective, sound is little more than continuous-time varying pressure waves, i.e. vibrations of air that our ear absorbs and our brain interprets. As such, sound can be ...

A recent discussion in our forums generated by our friend and neighbor, miTunes75, got me thinking. The thread begins with 75’s concern about the quality of files sold by the iTunes Music Store: Is ...

Lisbon, Portugal, Jun. 30, 2016 – Coreworks SA, a leading provider of audio codec semiconductor IP, in collaboration with its representative in Japan, Spinnaker Systems Inc., today announced the ...

A variety of audio compression technologies are being used today, each having a distinct advantage over the other in terms of compression ratio, coding delay, coding complexity or legacy system ...

Fraunhofer IIS, the primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, is extending its AAC family software license agreement with Google. Fraunhofer’s AAC encoder software supports AAC-LC, HE-AAC, and xHE ...