AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification

[hajj_3]

https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/AOMedia-Advances-the-Audio-Innovation-Era/

[hajj_3]

Samsung and google have developed a new 3d audio codec that works with IAMF that will be royalty free: https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-movie-quality-audio-from-the-comfort-of-your-home-meet-the-leaders-of-next-generation-3d-audio-technology

[hajj_3]

IAMF was ratified in October: https://aomediacodec.github.io/iamf/v1.1.0.html

[GeoffreyA]

I think FFmpeg added IAMF support not too long ago.

[shae]

Interesting to see activity in the realm of audio.
It's been mostly dormant for quite a few years now, maybe with exception of speech.

[hajj_3]

Today Samsung and Google announced Eclipsa Audio, a new competitor to Dolby Atmos/DTS:X/MPEG-H 3D Audio: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-brings-eclipsa-audio-3d-technology-developed-with-google-to-2025-tvs-and-soundbars

more info:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/introducing-eclipsa-audio-immersive-audio-for-everyone.html
https://news.samsung.com/global/eclipsa-audio-ushering-in-a-new-generation-of-3d-sound-with-samsung
https://www.whathifi.com/av/eclipsa-audio-everything-you-need-to-know-about-samsungs-new-dolby-atmos-rival
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/06/introducing-open-source-daw-plugin-for-eclipsa-audio.html

[hajj_3]

Vectis announces call for patents essential to IAMF: https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-announces-call-for-patents-essential-to-iamf