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Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
Fraunhofer IIS offers numerous components for multimedia software. Widely available audio and video coding solutions are as central to the offer as forward-looking multimedia technologies such as those which enable lossless storage of music or the processing and reproduction of high quality surround sound at low bit-rates.
Multimedia Software
Audio codecs:
- mp3: The standard for compressed music
- AAC-LC: Most common AAC profile, used e.g. by iPod
- HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2: Improved quality below 64 kbit/s
- AAC-ELD, AAC-LD: Full bandwidth, low delay audio coding
- HD-AAC: Lossless audio coding compatible to AAC
- MPEG Surround: 5.1 sound at stereo bitrates
- mp3 Surround: 5.1 sound at mp3 stereo bitrates
- MPEG SAOC*: Music 2.0: Interactive remixing / karaoke
Video Codecs:
Surround Audio Technologies:
- mp3 SX: Enhances stereo mp3 files towards 5.1
- MPEG Surround: 5.1 sound at stereo bitrates
- SX Pro: Creates surround content from any stereo content
- mp3 Surround: 5.1 sound at mp3 stereo bitrates
- mp 3D: Improved playback of stereo and 5.1 over headphones
- HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2: For discrete 5.1 sound at low bit-rates
Communication
- Audio Communication Engine: Complete solution for high-quality communication applications
- AAC-ELD, AAC-LD: Full bandwidth, low delay audio coding
Streaming Systems:
- Streaming clients for the Apple iPhone® SDK
Broadcasting
- DVB-H: Encoder and player software for mobile TV
- DAB Surround: DAB in 5.1 sound compatible to all receivers
- DAB+: Next generation DAB standard
- Digital Radio Mondiale, T-DMB
* currently under standardization in MPEG
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