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News Release from: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 February 2007
MPEG Surround Sound broadcast
demonstration
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is demonstrating a DVB-H transmission in 5.1 MPEG Surround sound at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, booth 2A126.
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is demonstrating a DVB-H transmission in 5.1 MPEG Surround Sound at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, booth 2A126 MPEG Surround allows transmission of true multichannel sound at data rates currently used for stereo services and offers realistic playback of surround sound over regular headphones
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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MPEG Surround is a surround-sound extension for existing audio codecs and allows, in combination with MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC, compression of multichannel audio at bit rates as low as 48Kbit/s while being fully compatible with existing stereo devices.
It also offers a binaural mode for playback of surround sound over headphones.
At 3GSM World Congress, Fraunhofer IIS is demonstrating DVB-H in 5.1 surround sound using a standard DVB-H transmitter and a portable ARM-powered receiver for playback.
The receiver includes the new Fraunhofer IIS DVB-H player software with support of MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC/H.264), MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC and MPEG Surround decoding that allows standard headphones to present a realistic surround image.
This MPEG Surround binaural rendering happens in real time in the player as the broadcast signal is received.
Fraunhofer IIS offers DVB-H server and client systems including the new MPEG Surround format for licensing as PC software and for floating- and fixed-point DSPs.
This enables broadcasters, IC vendors and receiver manufactures to introduce or enrich Mobile-TV services and devices with high-quality picture and surround audio.
Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Surround software is also available for other systems such as DMB, MediaFLO, DVB-T, DAB, HD Radio, and IPTV.
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