A distributed environment for automatic multimedia content production based on GRID

The containment of sale prices is a vital key when setting up a viable and sustainable business venture in the digital multimedia content. Possible solutions to this challenge could be found by automating, accelerating and restructuring the production process. With this aim, the AXMEDIS solution provides innovative methods and tools to speed up and optimize content production and distribution. The solution described in the paper was designed as a distributed environment based on the grid technology and promises an efficient management of multimedia services and production as well as the dynamic service discovery and composition, distributed resource management and adaptive media delivery.