Comment 24 for bug 336029

Iain: I have had a few crashes with miro now but they all seem to be related to pulseaudio. Don't know whether it would make sense to make the backend interfaces more robust in miro.

James: As long as I've been using Ubuntu (few years) the Xine backend has supported far more codecs than gstreamer and was much more stable. With jaunty xine is so far surprisingly unstable and has quite a few regressions - which actually doesn't bother me too much since gstreamer seems to have improved quite a bit.
In general I agree - I'd say before the beta launch there should be a decision whether xine is still stable enough to be the default option for the release.