I had a chat with the gstreamer guys, and the basic conclusion was that
capability negotiation in gstreamer 0.8 is 'borked', and that 0.9 will
fix the issue.
meanwhile I patched the adder element in gst-plugins (this is our third
patch for this element), so that a certain format can be enforced on it.
see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314146 for the patch.
so now opening SMIL files should be fast enough, but please see for
yourself, and report your experiences...
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