FIMS EBU User Group
FIMS EBU User Group
The Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) is a Task Force set up between the EBU and the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA).
OUR WORK
We support you in critical situations, deliver reliable and innovative services and stimulate the exchange of ideas and best practice.
EBU Flow Multi-CDN
EBU Flow Multi-CDN
Content providers are facing increasing costs to deliver their live and on demand video/audio content to their customers over IP.
Quality Control
Quality Control
Manual Quality Control alone is not adequate anymore and does not scale. Broadcasters need to look into automated file-based quality control systems to cope with large amounts of content and digital files.
Audio Contribution over IP (ACIP)
Audio Contribution over IP (ACIP)
To deliver high-quality audio feeds over the Internet, broadcasters rely on streaming audio over IP networks. To ensure quality and reliability over IP, broadcasters must consider a number of factors.
Subtitling
Subtitling
The EBU helps broadcasters produce and distribute high-quality subtitles for multi-platform consumption by standardizing subtitling formats for live and prepared subtitles.
Loudness (PLOUD)
Loudness (PLOUD)
The switch from audio peak-normalization to loudness normalization is one of the biggest revolution in professional audio. It is important for broadcasters to be aware of the loudness paradigm.
Immersive Audio
Immersive Audio
Having a bigger TV screen means having better and more immersive audio to satisfy your audience. It is important for broadcasters to look into these new formats and systems and their impact.
Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM)
Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM)
The Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) brings together manufacturers, broadcasters and industry organizations in an open, participatory environment to drive interoperabilitiy.
TV-Anytime News
TV-Anytime News
An association of organizations which seeked to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer platforms.
Sustainable Technology in Broadcasting
Sustainable Technology in Broadcasting
Research shows that televisions and associated devices are responsible for about two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. This percentage is expected to grow in coming years.
Sharing with Digital Broadcasting
Sharing with Digital Broadcasting
Various mitigation techniques to limit interference into existing broadcasting networks have been proposed and the effect of these needs to be considered by broadcasters.
Recommendation Systems
Recommendation Systems
Recommendations involve complex distributed systems and require a high level of tuning in order to best engage the audience. To remain competitive, broadcasters need to find ways to personaize their content.
RadioHack Community
RadioHack Community
Each year, we host a RadioHack event alongside the EBU Digital Radio Summit in February. During this event we take time to learn from one another, share best practice and develop tools to share.
Programme making and special events
Programme making and special events
The demand for wireless microphones and cordless cameras to produce sport competitions, cultural events and news has significantly increased. It is important for broadcasters to keep up-to-date.
Over the Top Services
Over the Top Services
Internet services are of growing importance for public broadcasters. Audiences are using different types of devices to access media and more media is being delivered via broadband networks.
Open Source Community
Open Source Community
As media systems become more complex, open source software can bring many benefits to broadcasters.
Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality
It is important for public service broadcasters to continue to support and advocate for net neutrality to ensure their services are equally accessible by all on the internet.
Mobile Technologies and Standards
Mobile Technologies and Standards
Mobile networks are becoming increasingly important for the distribution of audiovisual media services. Mobile networks will need to be able to accommodate the current and future needs of public service media.
Metadata Models
Metadata Models
Metadata is becoming increasingly important to broadcasters. It is essential for the media industry to continue to develop specifications and promote innovation, such as semantic technologies.
Metadata Developer Network
Metadata Developer Network
The Metadata Developer Network is set up to organize workshops to discuss new trends and latest research or applied developments with metadata experts from all horizons.
Media Information Management
Media Information Management
It is crucial for broadcasters to be able to efficiently manage, extract, index and retrieve information through the value chain, using well established conceptual and process models.
Media Cybersecurity Forum
Media Cybersecurity Forum
With the increasing security threats on the media companies, there is a need to create a place where all stakeholders of the media chain can come together and exchange on security matters.
Media Cyber Security
Media Cyber Security
Bringing more IT technology into the broadcasting domain has created new opportunities for media production and distribution, but it has also opened broadcast companies to new security threats.
Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
Interoperable Master Format (IMF)
The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a standard that allows a single collection of content to be transformed into multiple versions, while sharing the same material.
Integrated Media Production Strategies
Integrated Media Production Strategies
We now use multiple platforms or devices, such as web, television, or our mobile phones, to consume media. Broadcasters must integrate their media production to produce for different outlets.
Future Networked Systems
Future Networked Systems
The move to fully IT-based infrastructures for their production facilities will allow broadcasters to meet rising public demand for new services by offering more flexibility and reducing costs.
Future Distribution Strategies
Future Distribution Strategies
The way we consume media is changing. It is important for broadcasters to understand these changes and respond with adequate future leverage strategies.
Future Audio Formats and Renderers
Future Audio Formats and Renderers
The next generation of audio experiences will be more immersive than ever before. It is important that broadcasters look at new file formats to deliver and produce audio in these advanced systems.
Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility
Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility
Power Line Telecommunications (PLT) devices are offering higher and higher speed transfer rates. It is essential that broadcasters continue to monitor the implications of them.
Digital Radio
Digital Radio
Digital radio broadcasting technologies and hybrid radio services are becoming increasingly popular as they are able to meet evolving user expectations.
DASH Test Engine for Encoding
DASH Test Engine for Encoding
Delivering online available video to a large range of user devices continues to be a challenge for content providers. DASH can help.
Cross-platform Authentication
Cross-platform Authentication
Hybrid media devices that can deliver audio, video and interactive content over both broadcast and broadband offer an exciting opportunity for broadcasters.
Content Delivery Networks
Content Delivery Networks
Delivering live and on demand video services of good quality is quite the challenge for Public Service Media.
CTN-Mobile
CTN-Mobile
Mobile broadband is becoming a significant delivery platform for broadcasters. It is important for broadcasters to do more to study different mobile delivery options.
Broadcast Wave Format
Broadcast Wave Format
The Broadcast Wave Format was first specified by EBU in 1997. Since then, it has been updated several times and will continue to evolve to meet the requirements of contemporary audio production.
Broadcast Technology Futures Group
Broadcast Technology Futures Group
The Broadcast Technology Futures Group is an alliance of non-industrial research and development laboratories that include broadcast futures in their activities.
Broadcast Network Planning
Broadcast Network Planning
The main areas of interest of group are: time frequency slicing, cellular networks and frequency re-use, the use of the 700 MHz band and coding evolution/impact on data capacity requirements.
Broadcast Internet Services
Broadcast Internet Services
Today, broadcasters need to be able to manage “back-end” infrastructures and so-called “front-end” software interfaces that allow audiences to access and interact with content on different devices/platforms.
Automatic Metadata Extraction
Automatic Metadata Extraction
Metadata is indispensable for content archives, programme production, distribution and any system designed to electronically search and retrieve the assets you need and want.
Audio Subjective Testing
Audio Subjective Testing
Audio subjective testing should be an integral part of all sound and TV programme-making operations. It is important for broadcasters to take this into consideration.
Agile Software Collaboration
Agile Software Collaboration
In-house software developer teams are becoming essential to many of our Members' organizations, but they often work in isolation, duplicating work already being performed elsewhere.
Women + Technology
Women + Technology
The EBU strongly values diversification in the workplace and encourages more female professionals to join the industry. How can we help encourage more diversity in our technical groups?
Workplan
Every two years, the EBU develops a roadmap for technology and innovation activities based on the requirements and inputs given by EBU Members.
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