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Products & Technologies

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...

December 19, 2025
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Events & Tradeshows

Fraunhofer Automotive Audio Technologies on Display

Fraunhofer IIS will exhibit latest advancements in automotive audio at the 2019 AES International Conference on Automotive Audio. The main focus will be on discrete immersive 3D audio playback with MPEG-H in an Audi Q8 equipped with a series Symphoria sound system. For the first time it will be possible to hear sound from every direction in a car, exactly as it was intended by the content creator. In addition, our experts will demonstrate two exciting technologies of the Sonamic...

Events & Tradeshows

IMF workshops for experts in audiovisual archiving and preservation

Making movies is a costly and time-consuming endeavor, thus archiving and preserving them is crucial. A suitable file type for this task is the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), a recognized and SMPTE-standardized intermediate format for the creation and distribution of complex audiovisual content. On September 13, 2019, Siegfried Foessel, head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at...

Products & Technologies

Fraunhofer IIS announces integration of IMF creation in Autodesk Flame® via Fraunhofer easyDCP plug-in

The new version of the Flame finishing and color grading software from Autodesk now comes with an integration of the well-renowned easyDCP IMF (Interoperable Master Format) functionality from Fraunhofer IIS. Via plug-in every user can easily create and export IMF packages in accordance to the technical specifications for IMF deliveries. The new version will now be available.