Paving the Last Mile for Multi-Channel Multimedia Presentation Generation

Users of multimedia applications today are equipped with a variety of different (mobile) devices that each come with different operating systems, memory and CPU capabilities, network connections, and also different software such as multimedia players. To be able to efficiently deliver appealing multimedia presentations to all the users, we need to overcome the last mile in multimedia presentation delivery and meet the different requirements at the end user’s site. Consequently, one needs to provide multi-channel multimedia presentation generation such that all different users can get and use it in their individual device configuration. With our approach, we aim at developing act multimedia content model that embeds the central characteristics of today’s multimedia presentation formats: the definition of the temporal and spatial layout as well as the inn possibilities. The abstract model allows to be easily transformed to different multimedia presentation formats on different de...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MMM
• Authors: Ansgar Scherp, Susanne Boll
• Keywords: MMM 2005, Multimedia, Multimedia Presentation Delivery, Multimedia Presentation Formats, Multimedia Presentations