Would I be right in thinking that there won't be a one-option-suits-all approach in the final version? i.e. there's no escaping having to use esd for some movies, sdl for others, etc? Nice one - are these appropriate for the 20060721 build? I tried the alternatives to the sdl ao option and playback was a lot worse for a 352x240 29.99fps 224kbps mp3 sound 2Mbps video MPEG1 file (enough description?!).

Have you looked at streaming yet? Using HTTP and Samba/CIFS to access the same file on my local network was very stuttery, even when specifying a large cache size. Once that's sorted, I'll never need to get out of bed again