Description of problem: gstreamer is getting more and more popular and also it's chosen as gnome's multimedia engine. miro uses pygtk and gecko, so it integrates (almost) well with gnome. it could be natural if miro would require gstreamer rather than xine. probably you may want some arguments: * it's still actively developed and it's getting better and better * it's fresh, stable and not ancient * xine is losing its popularity * having dependency only for one programs may be stupid, especially, if the dependency is whole multimedia engine
This might be a good workaround, but I'd like to know if gstreamer can support most of the video types that xine-lib can before looking at switching the default. I did some quick checking and most of them worked, but I had some trouble with some mp4 files, even with gstreamer-plugins-{bad,ugly} and gstreamer-ffmpeg from livna installed. Can somebody compile a list?
If I could have all the video file formats on hdd...
See bug #392281 for example of xine causing an issue as the default renderer rather than gstreamer.
I didn't expected backend causing issues... I only wanted Miro to be consistent with environment it is designed for (GNOME) ;) .
Miro 1.5 will use GStreamer by default: http://pculture.org/devblogs/wguaraldi/2008/04/25/miro-and-gstreamer-on-gtkx11/ .