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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
Fraunhofer Cingo ® adds Surround Sound to LG U+ Mobile Video Services | ©Fraunhofer IIS
Products & Technologies

Fraunhofer Cingo ® adds Surround Sound to LG U+ Mobile Video Services

South Korea boasts the second highest smartphone penetration rate worldwide with 73 percent of the population owning a smartphone1. The majority of those smartphone owners watch videos or TV episodes on their devices and expect audio quality to be on par with other types of media such as HDTV. The LG U+ mobile video service ‘U-HDTV’ now provides excellent audio quality delivered by the highly efficient AAC audio codec and Fraunhofer’s Cingo mobile audio suite. The service will be...

Events & Tradeshows

Bringing Fraunhofer technology to India – Fraunhofer IIS conducts workshop on audio coding for digital TV broadcasting

Providing more than 7 billion devices worldwide with excellent audio quality, HE-AAC has become one of the most important enabling technologies for state-of-the-art multimedia systems and is also the established codec for streaming and broadcasting. Fraunhofer IIS conducted the workshop “Audio Codec Technology for Digital TV Broadcasting in India” in order to encourage a deeper understanding of...

ICSA 2014: Impressive and enveloping sound | ©Fraunhofer IIS/Kurt Fuchs
Events & Tradeshows

ICSA 2014: Impressive and enveloping sound

To combine theory and practice, and to create a platform for the full and free exchange of ideas, Fraunhofer IIS served as a venue for the 2nd “International Conference on Spatial Audio” (ICSA), which took place from 21st to 23rd February, 2014. For this event the institute cooperated closely with the German tonmeister association “Verband Deutscher Tonmeister” (VDT) and the German Acoustical Society “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e. V.” (DEGA). Tonmeisters, sound engineers and...