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 mplayer the movie player for linux, 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.

REQUIREMENTS:
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- a gnome 2 install, with all the devel packages.
- a working and recent mplayer in your PATH (0.90rc2).
- Xvideo extension to your X11 server (try "xvinfo")

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.
