<div>On 2/1/06, Alan <<a href="mailto:almoser@gmail.com">almoser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The problem is going to be with Gstreamer, no Quod Libet.  I think that Gstreamer might be a better desion the Xine to use as Xubuntu media backend, just becuase it is modular, and from what I can tell, it uses less processing power, and uses less memory. </blockquote></div> quod-libet has been proposed previously and remains to be seen if we go with it. One problem is that gstreamer 0.8 is about to be demoted to universe as ubuntu switches to 0.10. This is the reason kubuntu dapper will use xine as a backend as their media apps still have not been ported to gst - 0.10. So quod-libet will need to switch in time for dapper to be considered. How did you measure it taking up 50Mb vs xfmedia's 150Mb. Both seem huge to me. Regarding itunes/rhythmbox it may be only me but I find that interface very confusing. The classical winamp/xmms style is more to my tastes. This happens to be true for most people I know coming from windows. And gstreamer gives me the impression (but it may be just totem and rhythmboxes fault as installed by ubuntu) that it is a highly modular and advanced media streaming framework with pluggable backends and whatnot which incidentally may help you play some media files _if_ you're lucky. xine OTOH seems to just do the one thing it was meant to do, but it does it well. The decision so far is go with xfmedia, but the last word is Daniel Chen's since he knows this area very well. Jani