Fraunhofer IIS contributed to Emmy winning MPEG CMAF standard

Many people are familiar with audio and video codecs, but who knows how many other technologies are required to enable audio or video streaming? One such technology, largely unknown but nonetheless indispensable, is the Common Media Application Format (CMAF), developed by the leading standardization organization in the media world: MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). MPEG was honored with the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for the CMAF standardization in early December and...

SDK and Plug-in for JPEG XS go on the market

Film and television production is generating larger and larger volumes of data. Fortunately, the JPEG XS compression standard – developed in large part by Fraunhofer IIS – makes it possible to transfer even huge amounts of data over a network. License holder nablet GmbH is now launching a plug-in that allows users to import data compressed with JPEG XS into their software.