The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding.
MPEG-H 3D Audio is the standard for providing immersive next-generation audio. and alternative to Dolby Atmos. MPEG-H 3D Audio supports the notion of audio objects, audio channels,and higher order ambisonics and supports up to 128 codec core channels and 64 loudspeaker channels. Those unfamiliar with MPEG-H audio can learn more via mpegh.com.
The news today is that FFmpeg has merged MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding support into this library. The FFmpeg decoding for MPEG-H is relying on the reference Fraunhofer IIS MPEG-H 3D Audio mpeghdec decoder library. This FFmpeg addition was contributed by Daniel Stadelmann of Fraunhofer.
This commit outlines all the details around the new mpeghdec-based MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding support for FFmpeg when built with the new “–enable-libmpeghdec” option.
