X media finder homepage
AXMEDIS crossmedia content on demand portal
Cross Media Finder is a portal for demonstrating the accesss and the usage of AXMEDIS cross media content: video, images, document, audio, animations in flash, SMIL, HTML, and a large set of crossmedia content that can be accessed from:
http://xmf.axmedis.org/pda The cross media finder provides also a version for Mobiles and PC. The PC version provides content for AXMEDIS PC player. CrossMediaFinderThe Mobile version provides content for AXMEDIS Mobile player, for JVM with MMAPI: CrossMediaFinder for Mobile

The cross media content can be directly playes by clicking on their representative icons. To this end, you needs to install the AXMEDIS PDA player: download PDA player

Related document: Technical note on Cross-Media Finder (7001)

The players can be accessed from the menu "upload player" from the Cross Media Finder portal.The suitable player is provided according to your browser and device.
The AXMEDIS player allows you to see video and audio content into MPEG-21 envelop in progressive download.While the other kind of content are provided in simple traditional download. So that, if they are big you will have to wait few seconds to play with them.

Most of the content is not protected, some instances of protected content can be identified by the presence of remark. When a content is protected it has to be accesed only by registered and certified users which have the license to access at the content (that is provided for free on this trial). This portal helps you in registering you and certifing your tools. Once done, according to the content,the portal can automatically provided you a license for accssing the content on demand, and thus you will be entitled to test the AXMEDIS technology and full solution. If you have mobiles and PC the license produced can allow you to play the content even on mobile, PDA, STB, etc, any other AXMEDIS Device. Please go on following page registration.

There is also a support for automatically ingest and publish your user generated content with semantic metadata to enable full search capabilities. Upload web page. From that web page, you can upload any kind of content from single resources to complex objects in MPEG-21.Video, images and audio files will be converted/adapted to be suitably distributed via WEB. The Upload facility is also accessible from Mobiles and PC. The content can be protected to test the DRM with your content.

On the AXMEDIS web site http://www.axmedis.orgyou can find a lot of tools for the automated production of Cross media content.