gstreamer's deficiencies in comparison to xine are not limited to dvd playback:
1. playing streaming media doesn't work as well as xine (especially wmv streaming media) - in many cases - not at all - this is a huge issue. 2. playback of corrupted/partial files is very cpu intensive. 3. subtitles support is partial (more of a totem issue). someday, gstreamer will be as good as xine, mplayer, or vlc; for the time being, please provide the end-user the best possible solution available today, and when gstreamer will be mature enough, than consider adding it back to ubuntu stack - gstreamer have been in ubuntu for several releases now, and haven't improved yet. note: mplayer seems to have the best success ratio at playing streaming media, rather than gstreamer or xine. -- Make totem-xine the default for totem https://launchpad.net/bugs/78985 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
