Multimedia Home Entertainment System for Linux

[wessman]

Multimedia Home Entertainment System for Linux
from the toys-keep-getting-cooler dept.
posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 16, @11:03 (media)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1524217

An anonymous reader writes "A group at the University of Saarland in Germany has been busy developing a Linux-based networked multimedia home entertainment system. The project consists of two parts: the [0]Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM), to provide a common framework for audio and video playback using open source software, and the [1]Multimedia-Box, a Linux box outfitted to be a TV receiver (digital and analog), video recorder, and a CD-, DVD-, and MP3- player using the NMM. Screen shots of the [2]inside of the Multimedia-Box and the [3]user interface are available, as well as videos and a [4]detailed description (PDF) of the hardware and software used throughout. Can't wait to stick one of these on my network..."

Links:
0. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/
1. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/Sta...Box/index.html
2. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/Sta...tos/index.html
3. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/Sta...os/index2.html
4. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/Sta.../mmbox2002.pdf