In short: I have tested several use cases and gstreamer seems not to be usable. So Id' like to disable support for it in upcoming phonon releases. My problems with gstreamer: * graphical glitches when playing some (most) mpeg files * sometimes no sound * bad image quality (no deinterlacing?) * plugins depend on gnome * it plays some videos with wrong aspect ratio * does not seem to be a phonon problem; I had the same problems with totem; using totem-xine fixed those. So, future versions of phonon will only have the xine-backend enabled. Maybe I'll provide other backends when we have the ability to split packages. If you think this is a bad idea, let me know. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de