IBC 2026

Fraunhofer IIS

Transforming the Future of Broadcasting

MPEG-H Audio is bringing personalization, interactivity & immersive sound to viewers worldwide. It powers DTV+ broadcasting standard in Brazil, commercially launched in June 2026, demonstrating future broadcast system capabilities at scale. Explore the first native cloud production and broadcasting chain at our booth, developed with AWS, Techex, Jünger Audio, MainConcept for the most advanced IP broadcasting workflows.

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Fraunhofer IIS

JPEG XS Production Suite

connects live production, archiving, and post-production by eliminating the need for unnecessary transcoding.

JPEG XS Recorder for RTP streams (IETF RFC 9134)
JPEG XS Player for quick content review of recorded MXF files
Adobe Premiere JPEG XS Plugin: Direct import and export of JPEG XS MXF files

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Fraunhofer IIS

JPEG XS Codec for LIVE Production

The standardized, Emmy Award-winning JPEG XS codec optimizes your workflow for fast and high-performance video data transmission in professional live productions — all over IP with low latency, enabling near-real-time performance. The Fraunhofer JPEG XS SDK is available for MPEG-TS, ST2110, and IMPX. It offers development kits for CPUs (Intel, AMD, ARM) and GPUs (Nvidia), container solutions, including Holoscan.

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Fraunhofer IDMT

Content Verification Toolbox

Our advanced, explainable audio analysis and authentication tools enable journalists and media platforms to stay ahead of emerging threats in content verification and authentication. They detect microphone and codec traces, help uncover synthetic and manipulated audio, and trace reuse and transformations across datasets. Robust authentication tools support content integrity and help preserve trust in media content.

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Fraunhofer IAIS

AI4Media

We develop sovereign AI tools for the media sector, tailored to your data. Our solutions include speech-to-text for archives, live subtitling and translation, and a powerful multimodal semantic archive search. Seamlessly integrated into your workflows, our platform enables secure, intelligent analysis of audio, video, and text - helping broadcasters, archives, and journalists unlock deep insights from complex media content.

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Fraunhofer HHI

Trustworthy Authentication for Compressed Video Data

Experience the next evolution in video security with the latest video coding standard H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC). Fraunhofer HHI has developed a method by which compressed video bitstreams can be authenticated using digital signatures – thus enabling trustworthy authentication at elementary stream level.

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Fraunhofer IIS

Customized Content Localization Workflows

The framework allows you to integrate your preferred transcription and translation services. When used in conjunction with the Editor web app, it enables streamlined quality control of subtitles, allowing you to seamlessly integrate them into your easyDCP production workflow.

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Fraunhofer FOKUS

FAMIUM Provenance and Authenticity

The FAMIUM Content Provenance and Authenticity solution delivers robust authentication and provenance capabilities for digital media, ensuring content integrity across modern workflows. It supports secure signing of images, video, and documents using the C2PA standard, and integrates provenance metadata into MPEG-DASH and HLS for video-on-demand and live streaming.

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Fraunhofer FOKUS

FAMIUM Green Streaming

Our energy-efficient and sustainable media technology empowers eco-conscious streaming through FAMIUM GreenView, enabling dynamic energy-saving playback. The versatile player library supports HbbTV, ExoPlayer, and connected TV (cTV) platforms. With our Green Streaming Measurement Framework, we deliver precise, automated insights into energy consumption.

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Fraunhofer FOKUS

FAMIUM Digital AI Human

This is a platform for human-like digital avatars that speak, listen, reason and react - supporting enterprise knowledge, customer support, training and interactive experiences. The modular system combines speech interaction, generative AI, enterprise integration, multilingual communication, emotional responses and secure private deployment, with exchangeable components to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Fraunhofer FOKUS

FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite

The Streaming Media Test Suite is a comprehensive platform to streamline the testing and validation of media pipelines. It features an Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Testbed that automates the testing of media players under varying network conditions using Selenium and Appium. To ensure compliance with industry standards such as DASH, HLS, and CMAF, the suite includes a Content Conformance Validator.

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Fraunhofer HHI

Spherical MicA Microphone Array

The evolution of microphone array technology towards high-channel-count, real-time capable, IP-based systems opens new horizons for spatial audio acquisition and analysis. The MicA platform demonstrates how AES67-based networking, nanosecond-precise synchronization, and flexible array geometries can enable applications from higher-order Ambisonics to drone detection using to beamforming techniques.

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Fraunhofer IIS

Encode Once, Adapt at Playback

xHE-AAC is the latest generation of the renowned AAC codec line, used by Netflix, Audible, Facebook, and Instagram. Its mandatory MPEG-D DRC keeps loudness consistent and adapts the dynamic range to any device to fit every listening situation. Natively supported across Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft platforms, including the latest Amazon Echo and Fire TV devices, it reaches more than 5 billion devices worldwide, with adaptive DASH/HLS streaming from 12 to 320+ kbit/s.

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Fraunhofer IIS

Digital Radio Solutions for DAB+ and DRM

With the new time-saving Templates and Demo Content feature, creating a full DAB+ or DRM multiplex is just one click away. Instantly explore audio, multimedia, and service signaling using placeholder content, ideal for rapid setup, and receiver testing and development. The ContentServer technology stands for reliability and quality around the world. It powers Germany’s DAB EWS (“ASA”) emergency warning rollout scheduled for September 2026.

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International Broadcast Convention 2026, RAI Amsterdam, Media Industry

Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Europa Plein, RAI-Congress Center / September 11, 2026 - September 14, 2026

IBC 2026 - International Broadcast Convention

Sessions at IBC 2026

Booth Events

Trends and Technologies

AI for Media - Broadcast and Streaming - Advanced Audio Experience - Digital Radio

Transforming the Future of Broadcasting

JPEG XS Production Suite

JPEG XS Codec for LIVE Production

Content Verification Toolbox

AI4Media

Trustworthy Authentication for Compressed Video Data

Customized Content Localization Workflows

FAMIUM Provenance and Authenticity

FAMIUM Green Streaming

FAMIUM Digital AI Human

FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite

Spherical MicA Microphone Array

Encode Once, Adapt at Playback

Digital Radio Solutions for DAB+ and DRM

Contact Press / Media

Angela Raguse