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Stéphane Konstantaropoulos <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Lumiere
System name: lumiere
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Lumiere

Lumiere is a GNOME frontend to mplayer the great movie player for *nix. and to 
libxine from the xine project

Mplayer is really good, but unfortunately it is a bit difficult to use IMHO. I 
wanted to integrate it into the GNOME as a Bonobo component so that I could 
preview, or even view media files (mostly videos) from within the Nautilus file 
manager.

See it as Galeon for Mozilla, a Gnomification of a great piece of software
I recently discovered the API of libxine, it seems really clear, so I use it 
from now on, xine is a bit slower but as it is in a shared library, much more 
things can be done with it. This is my first attempt at GTK+ and at Bonobo 
programming, so it is VERY buggy

FEATURES:
# Backend Selection: lumiere supports mplayer AND libxine, use the one you like 
best or just switch according to the files.
# 3D OpenGL renderer: lumiere can play your videos on a 3D scene, with moving 
objects and the video mapped onto them. Quite nice, it always impresses the 
friends ;-)
# Playout: Lumiere plays .avi (any codec), .mpeg (any type), .wmv, .mov (a bit 
slow), .wma from files or http (just do lumiere http://whatever.avi).
# Configuration with GConf it is quite configurable. Almost as much as mplayer 
allows so far, more to be added.
# Nautilus Viewer Lumiere can play from file from inside Nautilus, once set as 
default viewer for .avi and .mov ...
# DVD playback much on request, it is available but more than alpha, I don\'t 
have hardware to test.
# Fullscreen could be ameliorated but works with latest metacity, works fine 
with any sawfish version, if you use a pixmap GTK2 theme, the background will 
not be black, I suggest the crux theme, much faster.

Other Software Required:
mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) GPL
xine-lib (http://www.xinehq.de) GPL

GNOME 2
libgtkglare 1.99

Other Comments:
I already submitted the projects before, there was a discussion whether mplayer 
was GPL or not, we found out that it was, so I submit again