Comment 5 for bug 334954

It wouldn't remove support for it completely, just remove it as a default action (or list of defaults) when opening/downloading a video file.

I just don't think banshee provides the expected user experience when used to open a video. It is fine if you are playing videos you are managing in your library. But when you click on a video to play, banshee doesn't actually take you right into video playback. You actually have to navigate to your playing video. That should really be fixed in banshee, right now banshee always does the same thing no matter what media type you opened. Perhaps it should detect it is a video and change your view to the "Now Playing" view. I will file an upstream bug for that, but until the user experience is improved I would rather steer the user towards totem.