Yes, when you compile rhythmbox you pass --enable-xine to the configure script to enable xine and by implication disable gstreamer Since then gstreamer has improved a lot, but IMHO xine is still better and more functional (unless you really need that pipelining stuff gstreamer does)
Okay, I've now added additional packages (still in the GStreamer section - with the main Rhythmbox packages) called rhythmbox-xine which are built with the Xine backend. Installing it will replace the rhythmbox package, but it's named differently so that users using APT won't get confused by it suddenly switching to the Xine backend when they upgrade. Yes, I know the 'GStreamer' section is horribly misnamed now, at some point, I'll make it simply 'Multimedia', but I can't be bothered right now :) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org