Comment 23 for bug 336029

For me it seems to work pretty well. Using gstreamer seems to be quite stable. With xine, skipping around within the video seems to sometimes result in a hang that may be related to audio (keeps playing video for a bit, with no audio, then hangs)

Since I've had behavior similar to this appear with earlier versions of Miro, I'm not sure if this is due to a bug with pulseaudio, xine, or Miro. I also don't get much in the logs, so I'm not sure what the best approach might be to get more info without just digging into the code.

I presume the reason that xine is the default renderer is the need to potentially install the good/bad/ugly codecs, is this true? I'm not suggesting that any issues be ignored, just curious why the default is set to xine.