Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware

Apr 05, 2007
The presentation of NMM at CeBIT 2007 was featured by golem.de, linuxmagazin, the german newspaper Handelsblatt, Saarbruecker Zeitung and many others.
Some photos of our booth and a video wall consisting of five systems (NMM Multimedia-Box running on Linux, and video wall: Linux, Windows VISTA, MacOS X, Windows XP) are now available. A video (avi, 68MB) from CeBIT 2007 shows our latest results in the area of adaptation-based optimal audio and video streaming. Compare the image quality of the received video stream without adaptation (left side) and with adaptation (right side).

Mar 13, 2007
Feel free to browse our photo gallery: First visual impressions of our demonstrations to be presented at CeBIT are available online.

Mar 01, 2007
NMM goes CeBIT 2007: Visit us at CeBIT 2007, Hannover, Germany, March 15-21: The Computer Graphics Lab of Saarland University and Motama will present the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at future market in hall 9, booth B65.
Read the official press release:

in English: Mobile Multimedia with Optimal Image and Audio Quality[pdf]
in German: Mobile Multimedia mit optimaler Bild- und Tonqualität [pdf]

Jan 05, 2007
Motama is now hiring software developers, system administrators, and interns: Feel free to browse the current job offers.

Oct 10, 2006
Fraunhofer IDMT and Motama to present metadata-supported applications for networked home entertainment at eHome in Berlin, October 18 to 20, 2006.

in English: Press release: "Multimedia-Box with Extra Features" [pdf]
in German: Press release: "Multimedia-Box mit Extras" [pdf]

Update: Photo gallery is now online.

Oct 02, 2006
Industry Breakfast with Saarland: The Utah Technology Council (UTC), USA, and four software companies from the state of Saarland, Germany, will host an industry breakfast on October 10, 2006, to discuss new cutting-edge technologies. Prof. Philipp Slusallek, scientific advisor of Motama, will participate in this event. If you would be interested in meeting Prof. Slusallek privately, please contact UTC.

Aug 22, 2006
The Google Summer of Code (SoC) project taken by Vincenzo Di Massa is now officially finished. During the last weeks, Vincenzo worked on the Phonon-NMM backend. More information is available in Vincenzo's blog and on the official Phonon webpages.

Aug 8, 2006
The NMM technology and Motama were featured in the German weekly newspaper VDI nachrichten

May 3, 2006
Google's Summer of Code (SoC) offers to work on Phonon, the new multimedia architecture for KDE, and in particular on Phonon/NMM (also see article on dot.kde.org). If you are interested in joining this really hot project, you need to register now - the deadline for students is May 8, 2006. If you want to know more about SoC, please read the student FAQ or the announcement on dot.kde.org.

Apr. 26, 2006
We are happy to announce that we will give a talk about the KDE/Phonon/NMM integration at LinuxTag 2006. For more information, please read the official press release.

Mar. 26, 2006
You missed our exhibition at CeBIT 2006? Visit our CeBIT 2006 Gallery ! The presentation of NMM at CeBIT 2006 and the foundation of the start-up company Motama was featured by TV, radio, and print media: Deutschlandfunk broadcasted a live radio show including an interview from our booth at CeBIT, the German TV news show RTL News presented our booth at CeBIT, Radio Salü and Donauradio Arabella Wien featured an interview concerning the foundation of Motama, the NMM technology and Motama company were featured in the TV news report Aktueller Bericht of the Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR), the Financial Times Deutschland, the Saarbrücker Zeitung, and Heise featured Motama, and - among many others - even the German newspaper Bild wrote about the project.

Mar. 1, 2006
NMM was featured in German TV: The show neues on 3sat showed a short feature of NMM on February 25, 2006. The complete broadcast is available online.

Feb. 22, 2006
NMM goes CeBIT 2006: Visit us at CeBIT 2006, Hannover, Germany, March 9-15: The Computer Graphics Lab of Saarland University and Motama will present the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at future market in hall 9, booth A 22.
Read the official press release:

in English: Future Living: New applications for multimedia networks [pdf]
in German: Future Living: Neue Anwendungen für Multimedia-Netzwerke [pdf]

Feb. 16, 2006

Official launch of NMM based spin-off company Motama: Read complete press release, also available as pdf.

Nov. 23, 2005
The NMM project was featured in an article in the German daily newspaper Saarbrücker Zeitung and in 20cent.

Nov. 09, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.9.1 "Packetized". From this release, we will provide packages for different distributions to simplify the installation process of NMM. Currently, we provide packages for the following distributions:

Read the complete announcement. We also updated our documentation and installation instructions for NMM source and binary packages.

Oct. 17, 2005
Andrés Otón announced a new release of KMediaNet, a set of applications that allows to use the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) within KDE. Downloads are available here and here.

Oct. 11, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the first version of the distributed streaming server based on NMM: Test it now!

Aug. 02, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce a new version of NMM-Oppix, a Live-CD based on Knoppix Version 3.7 including the latest NMM version 0.9.0. NMM is fully configured, so that all applications like our Multimedia-Box can be started without additional configuration steps. For general information about NMM-Oppix see: http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html
Download: http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html#download

July 29, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.9.0 "Yellow". Read the complete announcement. We also updated updated our documentation and installation instructions for NMM source and binary packages.

June 25, 2005
Open Source Press published a book called 'Video - Wiedergabe, Bearbeitung und Streaming unter Linux' (in German). This is the official book for the Video-Track at LinuxTag 2005. It includes a chapter on the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) on pages 389-407.

June 22, 2005
The NMM architecture was featured in an article in the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt on page 19.

May 11, 2005
We are happy to announce that we will give a talk providing an introduction to the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at the LinuxTag 2005. Please check the official program or read the press releases (1, 2) for further details. We are looking forward to meet you there to discuss all kinds of multimedia related topics.
Update: The corresponding press release of our University is now available (in German).
Update: The slides of our talk are now available.

Apr. 14, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the second Beta version of NMM-Oppix, which includes some minor bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for a complete list of bugfixes.
For general information about NMM-Oppix see: http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html
Download: http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html#download

Mar. 30, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the first Beta version of NMM-Oppix, a Live-CD based on Knoppix Version 3.7. NMM is fully configured, so that all applications like our Multimedia-Box can be started without additional configuration steps.
For further information see:http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html
Download: http://www.networkmultimedia.org/Status/NMM-Oppix/index.html#download

Mar. 21, 2005
The presentation of NMM at CeBIT 2005 was featured by linuxdevices.com, golem.de, the german journal c't, heise newsticker, netzwelt.de, and many others. Some photos of our booth at CeBIT can be found in our gallery.

Feb. 16, 2005
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.8.0 "Rainbow". Read the complete announcement. We also updated and extended the instructions for downloading, installing, and testing NMM. See here for further information.

Feb. 15, 2005
Announcement: Due to the large number of requests we received, we would like to announce that the Windows version of NMM will be released shortly before CeBIT ... or shortly after CeBIT ("it's done when it's done"), so stay tuned.

Feb. 11, 2005
New screenshots of the Multimedia-Box are available.

Feb. 10, 2005
NMM goes CeBIT 2005: Visit us at CeBIT 2005, Hannover, Germany, March 10-16: The Computer Graphics Lab of Saarland University will present the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at future parc in hall 9, booth D09 (Saarland Research Parc). Read the official press release in English or in German.

Jan. 27, 2005
The Multimedia-Box and NMM 0.7.0 is included on the CD that comes with the german journal sat+kabel 2/2005.

November 16, 2004
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware will be presented at the 1st Saarbrücker IT-Dialog Automotive Saar, November 17th, 2004, Saarland University, Saarbrücken. If you want to discuss with the NMM developers or want to see a live demo visit us at our booth, building 45 at the rotunda.

October 08, 2004
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.7.0 "Size matters". Read the complete announcement. We also added/updated some documentation and updated our web sites:

Setting up a Video Wall with NMM [pdf]. A demonstration video (14 MB) can be found here.
Setting up NTP for NMM [pdf].

Updated the NMM engine for the amaroK engine. See here for more information.
Now we provide an IRC channel on freenode. See here for more information.

September 19, 2004
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware will be presented at the 2nd Unternehmertag of the Saarland University, September 20th, 2004.

August 22, 2004
Added slides of our talk at KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".

July 26, 2004
We are happy to announce that we will give a talk about the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at the Developer Conference of the KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy". The "aKademy" will take place in Ludwigsburg/Germany, region of Stuttgart, 21st to 29th of August, 2004. We are looking forward to meet you there and to discuss all kinds of multimedia related topics with you: Private individuals and free software contributors are invited to take part in the conferences and the forums for free.

July 16, 2004
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware will be presented at the Opening of the CCIS - Kompetenzzentrum Informatik Saarland, July 19th, 2004, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken.

July 1, 2004
Visit us at the open day of the Saarland University, Germany, July 3th, 2004. We will present our networked multimedia home-entertainment center again consisting of the Multimedia-Box with seamless integration of mobile devices (Linux PDAs). Some photos and a video of a live demo from CeBIT 2004 can be found here. If you want to discuss with the NMM developers or want to see a live demo visit us at our booth, building 45 at the rotunda.

June 28, 2004
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware will be presented at the Congress Empower Deutschland on June 30th, 2004. The congress takes place at the Congress Centrum Saarbrücken, Germany. We will present our networked multimedia home-entertainment center consisting of the Multimedia-Box with seamless integration of mobile devices (Linux PDAs). We have already presented a similar demo at CeBIT 2004 (some photos and a video of a live demo from CeBIT 2004 can be found here). So if you are interested in NMM or want to see a live demo visit us at our booth.

May 29, 2004
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.6.0 "Networked by nature". Read the complete announcement. Update: We updated the source and binary packages of NMM 0.6.0 on June 1st, 2004. We also updated the installation instructions for NMM source and binary packages. We also added/updated a lot of documentation:

The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) : Basic Introduction [pdf]
First steps with NMM [pdf]
Hello World! Welcome to NMM Application Development :) [pdf]
Using the NMM Registry [pdf]
Controlling the NMM Multimedia-Box [pdf]
Setting up the EPG of the NMM Multimedia-Box [pdf]
XML Configurations for the NMM Multimedia-Box [pdf]
Clic - An Application for Setting up NMM Multimedia Flow Graphs [pdf]
Building amaroK with NMM Support [pdf]

Apr. 3, 2004
Together with other Open Source home-entertainment solutions, the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) and the Multimedia-Box were featured in the german journal c't, issue 8, on pages 106-110. Furthermore, this c't issue comes with a bootable CD-ROM that provides a small Linux distribution and that allows to install NMM and the Multimedia-Box easily. In case you want to try out our software without installing a new Linux system, simply download our precompiled binary packages or source code. We will also provide updated packages for the c't distribution soon, so stay tuned, e.g. by subscribing to our mailing-lists. Documentation about how to control the Multimedia-Box can be found here. Thanks to the people from the c't journal, there are also two new skins for the Multimedia-Box available.

Mar. 30, 2004
Some photos and a video (avi with divx/mp3, 20 MB) from CeBIT 2004 are now available. The video shows a live demo of NMM and the Multimedia-Box as presented at CeBIT 2004:

'Live TV' is started on a laptop computer; as this host does not include a TV board, a remote TV source is accessed transparently.
A PDA is connected to this TV application. Audio/video are transcoded for the PDA; the applications running on the laptop and PDA are automatically shared and run synchronized.
Then, the Multimedia-Box set-top PC also is connected to 'Live TV' by selecting the task running on the laptop computer. All three applications are then shared and run synchronized.

Mar. 29, 2004
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) and NMM's Multimedia-Box were successfully presented at CeBIT 2004. We would like to thank the many visitors that came to our booth for their enthusiastic feedback: thank you! The WDR made an interview for the radio show "Leonardo" broadcasted on Friday, March 19th, the CeBIT radio also made an interview. The SR showed some footage on the NMM project within their report about CeBIT at the Aktueller Bericht on March 19th (low-bandwidth or high-bandwidth real-media (external)). The NMM project was also mentioned at golem.de, Newsletter Innovationseinblicke Saarland, innovations-report.de, and DFKI Newsletter 1/2004.

Mar. 29, 2004
Update: Martin 'Renegade" re-structured the NMM forum (external) : you will find two separate forums now; one for he german, one for english only.

Mar. 8, 2004
Added new documentation: Basic Introduction and Hello World! Welcome to NMM application development :)

Mar. 7, 2004
Max Howell from the amaroK project (a new media player for KDE) announced 'Preliminary support for NMM in amaroK'. Get the latest source code from here (kdeextragear-1, see instructions).

Feb. 26, 2004
The NMM project and the Multimedia-Box are mentioned at golem.de.

Feb. 24, 2004
NMM goes CeBIT 2004: Visit us at CeBIT 2004, Hannover, Germany, March 18-24: The Computer Graphics Lab of Saarland University will present the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) at future parc, hall 11, booth E 30 (Saarland Research Parc). Read the official press release in English or in German.

Jan. 27, 2004
Martin 'Renegade' opened a new NMM forum and started the first topic there: NMM running on the Xbox ;)

Jan. 21, 2004
Added a German version of the Hermes web page.

Jan. 20, 2004
NMM and the Mutimedia Box running on a MSI Hermes PC. A detailed description of the used hardware and the complete system configuration of our new Multimedia-Box can be found on our Hermes page.

Jan. 16, 2004
Added paper on Dynamic Distributed Multimedia to publications (received Best student paper award at MUM 2003)
Added diploma thesis: Usage of the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware on Mobile Devices

Dec. 11, 2003
We now offer binary builds of our Sourceforge-CVS. These packages are build every night and can be downloaded from our FTP-site. See the README file for installation instructions.

Dec. 8, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.4.1. Read the complete announcement.

Nov. 11, 2003
Added links to other projects. Added wiki pages for NMM.

Nov. 3, 2003
The Multimedia-Box and NMM 0.4.0 is included on the DVD that comes with the german journal c't special, "Kino daheim".

Oct. 24, 2003
Added binary packages for NMM 0.4.0 on our download page.

Oct. 22, 2003
Updated FAQ and instructions for installation.

Oct. 20, 2003
NMM and the Multimedia-Box were featured in the german journal c't, issue 22, on pages 232-237: "Ein Knoten für alle Fälle, NMM - Vernetztes Multimedia Home Entertainment mit Linux". For those of you interested in setting up your own Multimedia-Box, here are some additional hints:

For building NMM, please see general instructions and extra installation help (currently only available in german).
If you successfully (or unsuccessfully) compiled NMM, we would like to hear from you. Please tell us the name and version of the used distribution, compiler, etc.
If you would like to get involved in the development of NMM, or you want to develop an application on top of NMM, or you simply want to ask a question or report a bug, you are welcome to subscribe to our developer mailing list [nmm-dev].

Please vote for the nice image that comes with the article (it is the "Motiv 3" for those of you who do not have access to the printed version of the c't). The image with the most votes will get published online ;)

Oct. 13, 2003
Updated wish list for NMM. Added some screenshots of Electronic Program Guide (EPG) of the Multimedia-Box

Oct. 1, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.4.0. Read the complete announcement.

Oct. 1, 2002
Added to publications: MIPS 2003 paper on session sharing

Sept. 22, 2003
The Multimedia-Box and NMM was mentioned in the german journal c't, issue 20, on page 182. Also, the complete source code of NMM 0.3.0 can be found on the CD-ROM that comes with this issue.

Sept. 15, 2003
The Multimedia-Box and NMM were presented to the Ministry of the Saarland and interested companies (press announcement in German, or article in journal Campus). The Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) showed a short report of this event on TV. See the whole report as AVI (23 MB, mp3 audio, divx video): You can see some screens of the new Electronic Program Guide (EPG) of the Multimedia-Box and its web interface.

Aug. 25, 2003
The Multimedia-Box and NMM was mentioned in the german journal c't, issue 18, on page 106.

Jul. 31, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.3.0. Read the complete announcement.

Jul. 25, 2003
Project homepages : Multimedia lecture SS 2003 (partly german)

Jul. 24, 2003
Added IMSA 2003 paper and videos demonstrating the handover of MP3 audio playback from a Linux PDA to a stationary Linux-PC (the Multimedia-Box) and back to the PDA.

Jul. 02, 2003
Added wish list for NMM.

Jul. 01, 2003
Public CVS on Sourceforge.

Jun. 25, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.2.1.

June 17, 2003
Multimedia-Box: new images available and new videos available, see storyboard for explanation.

May 5, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.2.0.

Apr. 2, 2003
The user interface of the Multimedia-Box received a 'JPR's CeMMY', a Jon Peddie Research CeBIT Emmy award, for 'Runner-up for best UI' ;)
(picture courtesy of Jon Peddie Research)

Mar. 31, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.1.3.

Mar. 28, 2003
The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware was presented at CeBIT 2003. We demonstrated a networked multimedia home entertainment center (Multimedia-Box) with seamless integration of mobile devices (Linux PDAs). Photos from CeBIT 2003 are now available online.

Mar. 28, 2003
During the last few weeks, NMM and the Multimedia-Box were featured on TV, radio broadcast, newspapers, magazines, and online news. The Multimedia-Box was shown on TV at the "Aktueller Bericht" at the Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR) on March 12th (modem, dsl (real media, external), avi (38 MB, divx)), the SR and the Hessischer Rundfunk interviewed Marco Lohse at CeBIT, the Saarbrücker Zeitung wrote about our exhibition at CeBIT, the german computer magazine c't mentioned the NMM project and showed a photo of the Multimedia-Box in issue 6/2003 on page 72, and NMM and the Multimedia-Box were also mentioned at slashdot, golem and wwp online.

Feb. 18, 2003
The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.1.2.

Feb. 3, 2003
Visit us at CeBIT 2003, Hannover, March 12-19: The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) will be presented at CeBIT 2003, future parc, hall 11, booth A25 (Saarland Forschungsstand). We will present a networked multimedia home-entertainment center consisting of the Multimedia-Box and mobile devices. For more information, please refer to the official press release (german).

Jan. 31, 2003
Added diploma thesis: 'Design and Development of a Multimedia Home-Entertainment System' (in german: 'Design und Entwicklung eines Multimedia Home-Entertainment Systems')

Dec. 19, 2002
Videos from the Multimedia-Box are now available here. New screenshots available here

Dec. 6, 2002
   The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.1.1.
   * many bug fixes
   * play list for Multimedia-Box
   * new plug-ins: ogm, ogg/vorbis encoder, ...

Nov. 19, 2002
All documentation is now in docbook format and available as html or pdf.

Oct. 30, 2002
New documentation online: 'Developing Plug-ins for NMM' and 'The NMM Interface Definition Language (IDL)'.

Oct. 21, 2002
   The NMM team is happy to announce the release of NMM 0.1.0.

   Main highlights of this release are:
   * completely rewrote Generic-classes in base, now supporting bidirectional flows
   * first public release of networked architecture (including registry)
   * qreqwizard application: Qt-based registry viewer
   * first public release of the Multimedia-Box
   * more plug-ins, and examples

Oct. 15, 2002
   Added publications: IDMS/PROMS 2002 paper and EUROPRIX 2002 paper
   Added advanced practicals reports: 'Multimedia-Box' and 'Synchronization in NMM'
   Open Source release: Linux LCD Driver
   The Multimedia-Box and the next NMM release will follow this week

Jun. 28, 2002
NMM 0.0.4 Release: Download and documentation

Jun. 25, 2002
    NMM goes Fifa World Cup 2002 : Broadcast Germany - South Korea at the Audimax (Saarland University):

    more (german)