The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has established a new initiative to drive the practical deployment of Audio Definition Model (ADM) and Serial ADM (S-ADM) across modern broadcast workflows.
The ADM Implementers Group (ADM-IG) brings together broadcasters and technology providers to address implementation challenges, with a strong emphasis on interoperability and operational readiness, said the EBU.
ADM-IG will focus on real-world integration, from production through to playout and distribution, with the aim of accelerating the adoption of Next Generation Audio (NGA) capabilities.
The group includes broadcasters BBC R&D, BR/ARD and Rai as well as technology vendors Ateme, BBright, Jünger Audio, Marquise Technologies and Telos Alliance.
Earlier this year, at the EBU’s Production Technology Seminar, ADM-IG partners presented the ‘ADM Studio Set-up’. The complete ADM/S-ADM broadcast chain includes ADM file creation, MXF wrapping and QC, playback from a playout server, and S-ADM authoring and encoding in both major NGA distribution codecs, AC-4 and MPEG-H.
“Joining the EBU ADM Implementers Group is the perfect opportunity for us to join our technology partners in helping our mutual customers improve consistency and efficiency throughout the broadcast chain, in both file-based and serialised workflows from production to emission, with the frame-accurate precision and reliable metadata required in object-based immersive and personalised audio,” said Roman Rehausen, senior product manager at Jünger Audio.
