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xHE-AAC Supported in AWS Elemental MediaConvert Cloud Encoding

AWS Elemental MediaConvert, the cloud-based video-on-demand (VoD) and audio-only encoding service, now supports xHE-AAC, bringing the most efficient stereo audio encoding standard to content providers worldwide.

September 12, 2025
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Institute Director Dr. Bernhard Grill appointed honorary professor

Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill, who has been Institute Director at Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen with responsibility for audio and media technologies since 2016, has been appointed honorary professor at the School of Business, Economics and Society at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), effective as of January 21, 2021. University President Prof. Joachim Hornegger presented Grill with...