controlling xine via CORBA:
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[ FIXME: corba support is not known to work as of xine 0.6 ]

xine implements a CORBA server interface to enable remote control and
scripting. For this, you need ORBit which should already be installed if
you are using GNOME. Otherwise you can get it from

  http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/

Any version of ORBit >= 0.4.0 should work fine.

To enable the CORBA interface, you need to supply the "--enable-corba"
argument to the ./configure script and recompile xine.

The xine server interface definition can be found in "corba/xine.idl" which
gets installed to "/usr/share/idl/xine.idl" by default.

To communicate with xine via CORBA, you need to get its IOR (Interoperable
Object Reference). Upon startup, xine writes it to the file ~/.xine.ior
where you can read it from. If the ORBit name service is running, xine
also registers itself there under the name "Xine". Unfortunately, the
ORBit name server is usually not activated by default. You have to run
it manually like this:

  orbit-name-server >/tmp/name-service-ior &

See the ORBit docs for more information.

Two example client programs are provided:
  1. "xine-remote" is an example client written in C which can be used to
     send play/stop/pause commands to a running instance of xine
  2. "example.py" is a small Python script that demonstrates how to easily
     control xine from a scripting language