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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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Important expansion of the MPEG-H Authoring Suite

Last year, Fraunhofer took the first step toward expanding the scope of its successful tool, the MPEG‑H Authoring Plug-in, by adding the MPEG-H Authoring Suite. Now this software package includes two more components that will help numerous audio professionals create more content in MPEG-H. Fraunhofer audio expert Philipp Eibl explains why the MPEG-H Conversion Tool (MCO) and the MPEG-H Production Format Player (MPF Player) are so important.

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Products & Technologies

Fraunhofer IIS introduces new test service and trademark program for xHE-AAC audio codec

Fraunhofer IIS, an institute of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, has announced a new web-based test service that developers and manufacturers can use to validate their implementations of the xHE-AAC® audio codec for compliance with MPEG standards. The service, which is available exclusively at , is free to use upon registration with Fraunhofer IIS and will test both encoders and decoders.