LUMIERE:
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Lumiere started life as an MSc project dissertation by its author for the University of Wales.

Lumiere started as 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 only libxine. Support for mplayer is currently broken.
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. But is broken too.

So What?

Now, Lumiere is a full media player with playlist stuff and all the rest.

From the web page:


What is Lumiere?

Lumiere is a media player, it just plays audio and video files. It is meant to work with Linux and alikes, not Windows.

Lumiere is a GNOME frontend to libxine from the xine project. It has the looks of XMMS or Winamp and integrates seemlessly with the Gnome Desktop. It uses most of the Gnome technologies available (Intercommunication, configuration registry, session management...).

Lumiere features a player with playlist management, visual effects, notification icon, a server mode. It can be used as a Nautilus "Viewer" and registers itself with the right-click menu of nautilus.

Lumiere depends on libxine to play medias, it will play only what is supported by your libxine (a default installation should handle most media types).

Lumiere is not aggressive with your computer, it needs little resources (if you use GNOME) and will not keep a hand on your audia or video hardware when not playing.

This is an Open Source project, made by its author and inspired at a lot of other open source projects. It was written for fun with no commitment at all. It happens that now, I use it every day as I find it flexible enough for my use.


REQUIREMENTS:
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- a gnome 2.2 (or even 2.4) install, with all the devel packages (for compiling, if you have a binary package development
libraries are unnecessary).
- a working and recent libxine - I recommend the latest one as it always get better.
  Get the encrypted dvd plugins (legal in Europe) at http://plf.zarb.org.
- More:
	Xvideo extension to your X11 server (try "xvinfo").

It is being developped under Mandrake 9.2 but I guess it is standard enough to compile and run on others.

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


USAGE (a few hints):
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Much like any other, the skin window can be shaded by double clicking on the title bar.
Check the standard Gnome shortcuts, they are respected (Ctrl-W closes window, Alt-right goes next on playlist...). Some "multimedia" keys are also handled.

Only one lumiere at a time though (maybe with loads of windows and veiwers), much like Galeon. So if you feel it stopped responding, you have to kill it.

Take it easy on startup, if it has to reload a big playlist, it will take some time.

Oh well, for the rest, enjoy.
