Join us at the leading conference for broadcast, streaming, and cutting-edge video technology, and explore our latest innovations! The IBC Show 2026 is set for September 11-14, 2026, at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam.
Meet our researchers at IBC 2026 and discuss the latest innovations in AI-powered media technologies, content security, and next-generation streaming delivery.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 11, 2026 - September 14, 2026
FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite
The Streaming Media Test Suite is a comprehensive platform designed 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. Users can access detailed analyticsthrough a SAND/CMCD streaming analytics server and a centralized dashboard. The suite also supports validation of playback performance across a wide range of devices and platforms via the WAVE Streaming Media Test Suite Devices. Additionally, it enables testing and validation of web media APIs for seamless integration and performance using the WAVE Streaming Media Test Suite User Agents.
FAMIUM MoQ – Media over QUIC
FAMIUM MoQ is the Fraunhofer FOKUS implementation of Media over QUIC, the IETF standard that unifies media contribution and distribution in one protocol. The Go and TypeScript stack delivers sub-second CMAF live streaming from camera to browser, browser-to-browser communication below 100 ms and remote render streaming below 50 ms: one relay infrastructure for live streaming, conferencing, AI voice agents and wearable contribution.
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. FAMIUM Wattlify provides streaming intelligence for energy-efficient and sustainable media workflows. Our GenAI powered Energy Consumption Forecaster Chatbot combines streaming and energy metrics to help optimize workflows and reduce environmental impact.
FAMIUM Digital AI Human
FAMIUM Digital AI Human 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.
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.
Fraunhofer FOKUS is proud to contribute cutting-edge research to the IBC 2026 Conference programme, addressing the future of AI-powered media testing, scalable content protection, and next-generation streaming technologies.
FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite
Streamline testing and validation of your media pipeline
Use of Large Language Models in the Field of Media
Energy-efficient and sustainable media tech
FAMIUM Provenance and Authenticity
Authentication and Provenance of Digital and Physical Assets
September 13, 2024 - September 16, 2024
Presentations by our experts on Friday, September 13, 2024
Content Provenance and Authenticity: New authentication technologies make it possible to better protect digital content and ensure its authenticity. To ensure trust, security and integrity in various industries and areas, the authentication of products and media is essential. FAMIUM Provenance and Authenticity provides technologies to authenticate digital content and physical products, to prove their provenance via trust chains and is aimed for counterfeiting protection, fraud prevention, misinformation and fake news, brand integrity, safety and health, legal and regulatory requirements
Key Topics: Software, Open-Source, 5G-MAG Reference Tools, DASH, Media Delivery, 5G Broadcast, the future of terrestrial broadcasting, Olympic trials, Non-Terrestrial Networks, GEO/LEO, Media Delivery, Reliable Multicast
5G-MAG Reference Tools: The 5G-MAG Reference Tools are an open-source software toolbox for connected media applications. The tools are filling the gap between the development of specifications for media services and their conformance testing, validation and prototyping. The development focuses on hybrid media services with 5G Media Streaming 5G Broadcast for OTT apps and DVB-I services.
This project will tackle the environmental impact of media consumption by developing consolidated metrics for energy consumption at major steps of the end-to-end technology supply chain, best-of-breed energy-saving features into a unified user experience.
FAMIUM GreenView: FAMIUM GreenView by Fraunhofer FOKUS is the solution for energy-efficient streaming on SmartTVs. Our technology dynamically adjusts streaming content for energy-saving playback without altering the original content. Seamlessly integrated into streaming apps, FAMIUM GreenView uses an AI model to optimize settings based on content, device, and display type. Trained with data from our Green Streaming Measurement Framework and Stream Analytics, it can save up to 20 percent energy on streaming devices. Available for cTV platforms, Android-based SmartTVs via ExoPlayer and HbbTV, it supports both OTT and traditional linear TV.
FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite: Experience the ultimate in media validation with the FAMIUM Streaming Media Test Suite. Validate and test media content across various devices with our comprehensive test suites for CTA WAVE WMAS and Device Playback Capabilities. Test and evaluate latest end-to-end streaming with FAMIUM MoQ using QUIC, HTTP/3, and WebTransport. Leverage advanced streaming analytics and content steering with CMCD, CMSD, and SAND standards. Our ABR Testbed & dash.js offers automated testing for DASH and HLS media players. Plus, our FAMIUM Edge rendering solution enables Metaverse experiences for high-quality 3D application streaming on any device.
September 08, 2020 - September 11, 2020
FAME showcased the following solutions:
In addition to the virtual exhibitions, we also offered a webinar on “AI-Powered Encoding & Optimized Streaming”. The live demo and talk offered comprehensive insights in the latest developments of our Deep Encode Solution.
FAMIUM Deep Encode: Title-based encoding solution for live and VoD content
Video streaming content differs in terms of complexity and requires specific encoding settings in order to achieve a certain visual quality. The FAMIUM Deep Encode solution leverages machine learning techniques to avoid test encodes and enables per-scene encoding for live linear content. It automatically predicts video quality metrics like PSNR, SSIM and VMAF, detects complex metadata like scene changes, and performs object classification and labeling for each video. Thus, FAMIUM Deep Encode provides the optimal encoding ladder for your applications and services.
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FAMIUM SAND: Streaming Analytics and Player Coordination using SAND
FAMIUM SAND is a streaming analytics solution for online video streaming. The SANDLibrary is a plug-in for video players, such as dash.js, exoPlayer or hls.js. The SANDServer includes a Web interface to analyze cross-platform streaming analytics, featuring real-time metric reporting to monitor player performance information like average throughput, buffer level and representation switch events. The FAMIUM SAND also enables shared resource allocation, which facilitates fair bandwidth sharing of multiple DASH clients competing for bandwidth in the same network.
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FAMIUM DAI provides cutting-edge components to enable server-side dynamic ad insertion for AVOD and live linear MPEG-DASH and HLS content in OTT and HbbTV environments. The solution offers flexible and scalable manifest stitching, server and client-side beaconing, sophisticated slate handling and ad podding. Furthermore, it integrates with industry standards, including VAST, MRSS and multiple flavors of SCTE35 signaling. FAMIUM DAI powers Serverside.ai, the state-of-the-art SaaS solution for monetizing video streaming independently across ad-networks.
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During a live playout we show you how a video is analyzed and the existing playback metrics are collected to predict the upcoming optimal ladder.
Nowadays, the world's Internet traffic is predominantly made up of video streaming. In order to support the Internet's limited transmission capacities, videos are compressed during encoding. Reducing video file sizes comes at an expense, however, when disseminating large volumes of streaming video via the Internet, resulting in a loss in quality. Live streaming, in particular, has special requirements with regards to the video transmission process, and can benefit from intelligent approaches in compressing content in a more efficient manner.
Our FAMIUM Deep Encode solution utilizes artificial intelligence methods for automating per-title encoding for Video on Demand and live streaming. During a live playout, we analyze the video and collect existing playback metrics in order to predict the upcoming optimal ladder. With the prediction, encoding settings are then adapted accordingly.
Video analytics is conducted on a per-scene basis in order to adapt settings to the current scene. In comparison to traditional encoding solutions, average storage and transfer volumes are reduced by 30 percent. This large decrease leads to significant cost savings in the long-run, and improves the overall Quality of Experience for the end user. This FAMIUM Deep Encode solution is codec and format agnostic, and the quality prediction (VMAF) is based on several extracted unique video characteristics.
September 13, 2019 - September 17, 2019
From September 13 to 17, 2019, FAME exhibited at IBC in Amsterdam. The following solutions were demonstrated:
Our solution enables dynamic ad insertion and flexible over-the-top streaming workflows including VoD-to-Live services across a multitude of devices and platforms via MPEG DASH, HLS and HbbTV. Dynamic digital video advertising can be integrated per user and in real time, in both traditional linear and on-demand content. Content manipulation and dynamic ad insertion is powered by the FOKUS components Manifest Stitcher and Aggregation Service, operating on manifest level in a highly flexible and scalable system architecture. Individual stream management and channel orchestration is available via the FOKUS Stream Scheduler.
For further information see FAMIUM DAI Service.
The Cloud-based 360° Video Playout offers a high quality 360° video experience for smart TV devices (HbbTV, Android TV, Fire TV, WebOS, Chrome…) as well as on the Web and on mobile devices. It provides a 4K Field of View using Adaptive Streaming to render the view in the cloud and streams only the visible area of the 360° content to the client. This reduces the required transfer bit-rates to the client, which can provide smooth playback of 24 K 360° source videos - on widely deployed TV platforms), web, and mobile. The solution supports Live and On-demand 360° Video Streaming. Content playout is compatible with existing CDNs using DASH and supports DRM over EME.
For further information see Cloud-based 360° Video Playout.
Video streaming content differs in terms of complexity and requires title-specific encoding settings to guarantee a certain visual quality. A classic “one-fits-all” encoding ladder ignores this characteristics and applies the same encoding settings to all videos. FAMIUM Deep Encode leverages different machine learning techniques to identify the optimal encoding ladder for all types of video content. Our solution supports title- and scene-based encoding for VoD and live streams. By constant validation and retraining of our models the accuracy and efficiency of the underlying algorithms is improved with each input and the entire system learns on its own. Furthermore, it uses information from SAND metric reporting to enable context-aware encoding and meet the desired QoE expectations.
For further information see FAMIUM Deep Encode.
SAND (ISO/IEC 23009 DASH Part 5) defines standardized message formats for server and network assisted DASH. FAMIUM SANDLibrary and SANDServer cover SAND metric reporting and SAND shared resource allocation. The solution offers real-time metric reporting to monitor OTT player performance and allows fair bandwidth sharing of multiple DASH clients competing for bandwidth in the same network (e.g. sports stadium, plane, train, home networks etc.). Furthermore, ML-enabled analytics can derive the QoE Score for streaming sessions.
For further information see FAMIUM SAND.
Playout Side AD Insertion (PSAI) allows to dynamically insert ads into a linear broadcast TV channel at the broadcaster’s playout, whereby the ad decisioning for a specific ad is made based on real-time audience data provided by a linear broadcast TV measurement solution. Thus, it enables broadcasters to sell their TV inventory in a digital-like approach (programmatic advertising) in real-time based on the actual viewership of their program. In addition to traditional viewership profile data as age, gender and social status, the solution features advanced data as program affinities and interest groups allowing advertisers to buy inventory for similar target groups both digital and on TV.
September 13, 2018 - September 18, 2018
From September 13 to 18, 2018, FAME exhibited at IBC in Amsterdam where the following solutions were demonstrated:
September 14, 2017 - September 19, 2017
Fraunhofer FOKUS showcased advanced streaming solutions at the IBC in Amsterdam:
The Interactive 360° Streaming Suite makes elements of 360° videos clickable and thus allows an interactive experience for the viewer. While the Cloud-based 360° Video Playout offers the optimal streaming solution by significantly reducing the required bitrate, the Interactive 360° Streaming Suite adds the storytelling feature to 360° videos.
The Interactive 360° Streaming Suite offers many options to the content creator to make an individual viewing experience possible and can be used on desktop as well as on mobile devices. It consists of a web based editor as well as cross-platform players (HbbTV, Web, mobile devices, HDMI sticks, etc.). The tool provides various pre-defined markers as well as customizable icons to tag different elements of the video to make them interactive. Markers can be sticked on static and moving elements in the video or on a fixed screen position.
Interaction elements allow for the dynamic display of overlays and supplementary information as well as to link to other video segments and resources.
The Interactive 360° Streaming Suite will be presented at the stand of ZVEI Deutsche TV Plattform at IFA Berlin.
For further information see 360° Video Playout.
The Cloud-based 360° Video Playout allows the viewing of high quality 360° videos on devices with constrained capabilities such as TV sets and HDMI stick devices. Usually the delivery of such video material consumes a large bitrate and results in a considerable processing load to perform the geometrical view projection and rendering. For example in order to achive a 4K FoV resolution, bit-rates of 200 – 300 Mbit/s is required to stream the complete 24K 360° video and it requires a few seconds to render the 4K FoV frame from the 24K equirectangular frames – which makes a smooth playback impossible even on modern devices with high processing and graphical computing capabilities. Field of View Adaptive Streaming addresses both aspects and reduces the required bit-rates and processing resources by rendering the field of view in the cloud in advance and by streaming only the selected field of view to the client. By doing so, many features which are applicable to classical videos can be also applied to the FOV videos for example: adaptive streaming using DASH and MSE, efficient delivery over existing CDNs and DRM Support over EME, and even Live Streaming scenarios. The solution also supports synchronization across multiple TVs and other devices (even mixed) so that a shared as well as an extended experience is possible.
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The Cloud-based 360° Video Playout will be part of the presentations at the stand of ZVEI Deutsche TV Plattform at IFA Berlin.
For further information see 360° Video Playout.
The “FAMIUM DAI Service” is an end-to-end solution for ad-insertion in MPEG-DASH and HLS. The flexible chain consists of multiple micro services, that can easily be deployed and replaced and integrate well with existing components. Our solution wraps the complexity of the ad-insertion process into a simple, easy to understand, web-based management interface.
It supports different ways of ad insertion, namely server-based and client-based ad insertion. The service covers the latest MPEG-DASH ad-insertion techniques like XLink and DASH inline and inband events. Moreover, it has support for ad signaling mechanisms like SCTE35 and ad server standards like VAST, VPAID and VMAP. Our tools can be used to target different platforms, including HTML5 browser, HbbTV 1.5/2.0 devices and native DASH and HLS player running on Android, FireTV or Chromecast.
For further information see FAMIUM DAI Service.
MPEG-SAND, specified in ISO/IEC 23009-5, defines standardized message formats for communication between server, client and network elements involved in the streaming process of MPEG-DASH. SAND-capable components are able to exchange real-time information of network and server components, as well as player behavior and performance data.
Fraunhofer FOKUS has implemented two libraries covering important parts of the SAND specification: The “SANDLibrary” provides tools for SAND metric reporting and the transport of status and PER messages. The library is implemented in JavaScript and integrates well with existing DASH players like dash.js, Shaka and hasplayer.js. The “SANDServer” is a Node.js-based SAND server to store metric reporting information in a database and handle the SAND shared resource allocation use case.
SAND metric reporting is an important tool for content providers as it enables players to provide streaming performance information like average throughput, buffer level, representation switch events and initial playout delay (QoE metrics defined in ISO/IEC 23009-1). SAND shared resource allocation allows network components to control how much bandwidth a client should use. This is useful in scenarios in which multiple DASH clients share the same network and compete for the available bandwidth (e.g in a stadium, train or airplane).
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September 09, 2016 - September 13, 2016
Solutions on Virtual Reality, HbbTV, DVB-T and HTML
The Fraunhofer FOKUS Cloud-based 360° Video Playout for HbbTV makes it possible to watch 360° video content on low capability devices such as HbbTV. The delivery of this huge source video material consumes a large bandwidth and results in a considerable processing load for the view projection and rendering. Therefore, the videostream is rendered on server side with the Fraunhofer FOKUS 360° Video Cloud Streaming Server. It allows high quality 360° video live streaming with low latency. With the 360° Video Control Mobile App users can navigate the video by remote control or a mobile device to freely change their perspective of view.
The Fraunhofer FOKUS Cloud-based 360° Video Playout for HbbTV allows content providers and broadcasters to provide an innovative video experience on traditional TV screens. The capability of view analytics allows content producers and advertisers to get specific information what viewers are interested in and what part of the scene they are watching, allowing detailed feedback about home user interests that wasn't previously available outside of limited lab trials.
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Creating HbbTV apps made easy
The HbbTV Application Toolkit – HAT – presents a CMS for creation of HbbTV applications, which allows content creators without specific technical skills to build interactive TV applications and is developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS' Competence Center Future Applications and Media (FAME). So far HAT covers a simple themes collection which can be accessed through the editor UI. Here the content editor can choose from different layouts and designs regarding the background and color scheme. The layouts include basic modules, broadcast or IP-video, text, image and live blog. The live blog includes an external live blog coming via social media APIs. We see a great potential in the uptake of programme-related HbbTV apps creating new markets for developers and technology providers. HbbTV Application Toolkit Editor HAT provides an editor/CMS with a set of GUI templates that can be filled with text, images audio and video content via a responsive user interface for desktop and mobile devices alike. The content palette can be extended by customized modules, e.g. for display of social-media feeds. The toolkit includes a collection of templates and modules, allowing control of all application elements including broadcast source, IP video source, images, text, picture gallery, social media feeds, popups and overall application layout. When creating more than one page, a navigation menu is automatically generated.
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Cloud-based monitoring of DVB-T/T2 networks
Linked data for service quality and experience gain in DVB-T/T2 networks. Digital service broadcast suffers from misconfigurations at the source and dynamically changing signal propagation conditions. The lack of feedback leads to undisclosed service degradation and decreased experience. Selective professional monitoring is costly and often not enough to cover large areas.
Our Broadcast Probing System offers cloud-based continuous near real-time monitoring of broadcast networks by utilizing massively distributed low-cost probes. Controlled either individually or in groups the probes are securely instructed to execute scheduled jobs like scanning, tuning and transport stream inspection. The collected spatiotemporal data links RF characteristics and stream quality (e.g. Signal levels, TS packet errors), multiplexed tables (e.g. AIT/HbbTV, EIT/EPG) and AV dumps to allow for live analysis, evaluation and integration into monitoring environments
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PlayReady-compliant CDM for HTML5 content protection
The Open Content Decryption Module (OCDM) is a Content Decryption Module (CDM) compliant to W3C Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification to be used with HTML5 based browser environments. OCDM source code is now available on GitHub. The Open Source Content Decryption Module has been developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS with the aim to be suitable and interoperable for as many systems and providers as possible. The code is accessible for everyone on GitHub. It is intended for OEMs, DRM providers, system integrators and browser vendors looking to enable playback of premium video content via EME. The CDMi itself contains most CDM logic and is a c++ wrapper for the embedded platform DRM. This implementation offers interoperable HTML5 based protected video delivery, DRM interoperability based on Common Encryption (CENC) and MPEG-DASH support.
September 11, 2015 - September 15, 2015
Fraunhofer FOKUS demonstrated the following solutions:
Creating HbbTV apps made easy
The HbbTV Application Toolkit – HAT – presents a CMS for creation of HbbTV applications, which allows content creators without specific technical skills to build interactive TV applications and is developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS' Competence Center Future Applications and Media (FAME). So far HAT covers a simple themes collection which can be accessed through the editor UI. Here the content editor can choose from different layouts and designs regarding the background and color scheme. The layouts include basic modules, broadcast or IP-video, text, image and live blog. The live blog includes an external live blog coming via social media APIs. We see a great potential in the uptake of programme-related HbbTV apps creating new markets for developers and technology providers. HbbTV Application Toolkit Editor HAT provides an editor/CMS with a set of GUI templates that can be filled with text, images audio and video content via a responsive user interface for desktop and mobile devices alike. The content palette can be extended by customized modules, e.g. for display of social-media feeds. The toolkit includes a collection of templates and modules, allowing control of all application elements including broadcast source, IP video source, images, text, picture gallery, social media feeds, popups and overall application layout. When creating more than one page, a navigation menu is automatically generated.
Benefits
PlayReady-compliant CDM for HTML5 content protection
The Open Content Decryption Module (OCDM) is a Content Decryption Module (CDM) compliant to W3C Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification to be used with HTML5 based browser environments. OCDM source code is now available on GitHub.
The Open Source Content Decryption Module has been developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS with the aim to be suitable and interoperable for as many systems and providers as possible. The code is accessible for everyone on GitHub.
It is intended for OEMs, DRM providers, system integrators and browser vendors looking to enable playback of premium video content via EME. The CDMi itself contains most CDM logic and is a c++ wrapper for the embedded platform DRM. This implementation offers interoperable HTML5 based protected video delivery, DRM interoperability based on Common Encryption (CENC) and MPEG-DASH support.
The Fraunhofer FOKUS Ad-Insertion Tools demonstrate standards-based dynamic ad-insertion techniques for HbbTV 2.0 and Over-the-Top delivery (OTT) via MPEG DASH and HTML5.
The solution allows for hybrid playout of Ad cue messages to both, broadcast and broadband world and supports conversion of SCTE35 to HbbTV and MPEG DASH specific events for ad signaling,
VAST and various ad types like display and video ads.
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems
