If you are using proprietary software when there is a free alternative, that is your problem, nothing is stopping you from building the mad plugin yourself. Even with the proprietary plugin GStreamer is plenty debugable as its particular architecture provides close insight of what is going in and what is going out of the plugin, making it for those people who actually have access to the plugin's code, incredibly easy to find out what is, or could be, going wrong. But since you do not want to help them improve the software all this does not help and for that matter no improvement will take place which essentially provides the means for your argument being valid for many years to come. Certainly you see the problem with saying something is crap and then not being willing to contribute to changing that, which is a bit of a silly chain of conditions as the not giving feedback prevents an improvement and the missing improvement then is making it possible to rant about the software for much longer. Of course I recon that complaining about something that is not changing because one is not doing anything about the not changing part is a lot more fun than actually sitting down for a couple of minutes to help move things along, just like using a solution that already works is a lot more fun than creating a new one. I guess that is also the reason why we all still use Windows. In the end it probably all comes down to being exclusive. Being exclusive by using this and not that, being exclusive by being part of a vocal minority, being exclusive by working on GStreamer software, which evidently is mutually exclusive with working on any other multimedia software, that is why I started work on a mobile vlc player, although I now need to stop working on Phonon and GStreamer due to the mutually exclusiveness.

What also contributes to exclusiveness is doubting someone's word and spreading FUD, so here is an exclusive warning: do not spread FUD and suggestions about my motivations. Kthxbai