Comment 5 for bug 307578

Appreciate the efforts on fixing this.

I was experiencing the same issues on my freshly installed Xubuntu 8.10 PC, but then with video playback (wmv files for example). Although I had all common codecs installed (through Totem, which I use as well), Xfmedia didn't start up any of the videos.

It would only start up, blink with the video screen once and disappear (leaving only the play/pause/stop screen etc. behind).

Then read somewhere that installing libxine1-ffmpeg could help (thanks Boris). Did that and now it works without problems!