Hi all, about half a year ago I tried to use Qt with its gstreamer backend. Some of the problems I had are now fixed and I am able to play all my files without problems. There is now Qt with gstreamer support and its own phonon in kde-unstable. This means video/audio tags might work in webkit now. So this is just a test if switching from xine to gstreamer as default backend is a good idea. The downside of gstreamer are that you need to install all of its plugin to play any random file. And at least the "good" plugins depend on gnome libs (libsoupo, gconf, gtk etc.) Of course its still easy to use any other backend (mplayer, xine etc.) I have put a xine-backend into AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28038 Webkit only works with gstreamer backend though. (and the prerelease of kaffeine needs the xine backend) Any ideas opinions about this? Maybe we can split qt and provide a separate gstreamer package; this way you can remove gstreamer if you really don't like it. :-) Qt depends on the base plugins of gstreamer; so you can play ogg files; systemsounds should work. If a file really does not play try to install the whole plugin group. -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre