readme - update readme for efl 1.8

lots of extra documentation and information now in the README

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-Emotion Generic Players 1.8.0.
+Emotion Generic Players 1.8.0
+=============================
 
 ******************************************************************************
-
  FOR ANY ISSUES PLEASE EMAIL:
  enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
-  
 ******************************************************************************
   
-Players for Emotion using "generic" module.
-
-EMOTION GENERIC PLAYERS
-=======================
+These are binary players for Emotion using the "generic" module.
 
-Emotion support multiple modules provided as shared-objects under
-${prefix}/lib/emotion/modules, making it extensible. However these
+Emotion supports multiple modules provided as shared-objects under
+PREFIX/lib/emotion/modules, making it extensible. However these
 live in the same process as the application, thus problems handling
 the media may crash or halt the application. Unfortunately media
 handling is very error prone due multiple sources, sinks, decoders et
 al, each with their own level of stability.
 
-To solve this emotion ships with a "generic" module that will be a
+To solve this, Emotion ships with a "generic" module that is a
 layer to talk to another process, the "player", using pipes and shared
 memory (shm). If this external process dies, the main application
 remains working (without any media, of course). Thus it is safer and
-have some nice qualities as avoiding bringing in many libraries to
+has some nice side effects such as avoiding bringing in many libraries to
 decode media, saving memory in the application process, etc.
 
 A secondary benefit is that the generic player is a separate process
 and does not link with the user application code or EFL, avoiding
-license conflicts. Many decoding libraries or elements exist in
+license conflicts. Many decoding libraries or elements exist with
 conflicting licenses with GPL, LGPL or even proprietary code.
 
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+    vlc (library)
+
+
+COMPONENTS
+----------
+
+**VLC Generic Player:**
+
+//GPL v2 license//
+
+This is a binary that uses the VLC library (libvlc) to play videos
+inot shared memory.
+
+COMPILING AND INSTALLING
+------------------------
+
+    ./configure
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
+
+COMPILER FLAGS
+--------------
+
+You may want to change the install prefix for EFL with:
+
+    --prefix=/path/to/prefix
+
+**NOTE:**
+
+You should put generic players in the same prefix as EFL or they will
+not be found by EFL at runtime.