RE: https://wisskomm.social/@fraunhofergesellschaft/116316836651987651

Neue MPEG-H-Audiotechnologie vom Fraunhofer IIS 👇

#frauenhofer #audio #technik #mpeg #3d #klang #hören

Now that #Dolby has launched a #patent lawsuit over #AV1, unless I'm mistaken we're about to have a repeat of the #Unisys #GIF patent situation where all #browser⁠s must remove support for widely-used image and video formats, namely AV1, #AVIF, #WebP, #WebM, #VP8, and #VP9.

This is really bad. The only other widely supported video codec is #MPEG-4 (which is also patented) and the only other widely supported lossy image format is #JPEG (which is rather inefficient).

What do we do?

FFmpeg 8.1 brings MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding support via the libmpeghdec library. MPEG-H 3D Audio is an advanced, immersive audio standard developed by Fraunhofer IIS that provides 3D sound—including height channels—for television, streaming, and VR.

#FFmpeg #MPEG #3D #decoding

NPR Planet Money explores the role of patent pools in tech standards, how companies can collaborate without straying into collusion

#MPEG #Standards #techhistory

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/11/nx-s1-5707856/singer-sewing-machine-patent-pool-antitrust-mpeg

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@metaverse/115538053900190652

Video from the Characters Town Hall that was held on November 19th is now available! Learn about the latest from #MPEG, #glTF, #VRM, #HAnim, #Meta, and more!

https://youtu.be/GK6aqhJbn7w?si=_cHu3V19O7t5N3vV

Been messing around with a little #prototype #neuralnetwork. It behaves similarly to a #video #codec. It uses a frozen set of weights from #StableDiffusionXL and uses its latent space to carry forward to a set of networks that behave like the B-frame motion vectors used by codecs like #MPEG. These are smaller networks, letting me train it on my regular old #GPU while relying on the work of the big boys for generating I-frames via #SDXL.

At least that's the theory. Reality remains to be seen.

Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

https://leonardo.chiariglione.org/

#mpeg