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In order to meet the quality expectations of their users, high-end consumer electronics manufacturer Bang Olufsen decided on the new open standard LC3plus codec from Fraunhofer IIS for their wireless
Fraunhofer IIS: Netflix Now Streaming with Fraunhofer's xHE-AAC Audio on Android Mobile Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer's high-quality xHE-AAC software and is using it to encode its entire catalog of TV series, documentaries and feature films across a variety of genres and languages. One of the key features of xHE-AAC for Netflix is the mandatory MPEG-D loudness and dynamic range control metadata. It allows service providers to embed content- and endpoint-specific m...
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 https://test.xhe-aac.com, is free to use upon registration with Fraunhofer IIS and will test both encoders and decoders. xHE-AAC introduces many additional features such as mandatory loudness normalization, dynam...