I wasn't aware of this gconf entry. Thanks for telling me. I had the path to the XML file hardcoded until now.

Is it possible to have an attribute in the <item> tags to indicate whether a stream should be played with osso-media-server or with mplayer? It should be sufficient if this attribute would just report the MIME type of the stream.

EDIT: I see that there's already the "player" attribute. It's just not used much in WorldTV99. Will this change or does this mean that all streams play nicely with osso-media-server except for the single one marked with "mplayer"?