LUMIERE:
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Lumiere is being worked on as an MSc project dissertation by its author for the University of Wales.

Lumiere is a Bonobo Component that embeds a movie player widget, it is not just a "widget" it is a CORBA server that provides as "services", the handling of video files...

It is meant to work with GNOME 2 and will not work without it as we need a CORBA ORB to be running and the bonobo activation server to wait for requests and activate our server.

Lumiere supports now mplayer and libxine.
Lumiere can also draw on an OpenGL context for effect "show off", any video supported by libxine can be played on a moving cube, sphere or cylinder with or without environment mapping. It kicks.

REQUIREMENTS:
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- a gnome 2 install, with all the devel packages.
- a working and recent mplayer (0.90rc4 is required if you do not have xvideo).
- More:
	Xvideo extension to your X11 server (try "xvinfo")
	Glx extension (glxinfo) for glplay.

It is being developped under Mandrake Cooker but has also been tested on a stable Mandrake 9.0

OOOPS:
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It needs to be installed in the same prefix as your gnome install, use the configure switch --prefix=$YOUR_GNOME_PREFIX

The gconf schema file might not install with "make install", you will have to do
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=lumiere.schemas

check if you have /apps/lumiere in your gconf registry with gconf-editor. Then everything should be fine.

USAGE (a few hints):
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in fullscreen mode, try right clicking to get a context menu (not working with mplayer), to switch back to windowed mode, Ctrl-f or the menu.

in glplay mode, a few keys:

e - toggle environment mapping;
s - change the shape of the moving object
b - toggle background drawing

