diff -ru gst-plugins-base-0.10.30.4/gst/playback/gstplaysink.c src/gst/playback/gstplaysink.c
--- gst-plugins-base-0.10.30.4/gst/playback/gstplaysink.c	2010-10-29 15:04:07.000000000 +0200
+++ src/gst/playback/gstplaysink.c	2010-11-03 22:25:44.680750999 +0100
@@ -1247,6 +1247,7 @@
   gst_object_ref_sink (bin);
   gst_bin_add (bin, chain->sink);
 
+#if 0
   /* decouple decoder from sink, this improves playback quite a lot since the
    * decoder can continue while the sink blocks for synchronisation. We don't
    * need a lot of buffers as this consumes a lot of memory and we don't want
@@ -1265,6 +1266,10 @@
     gst_bin_add (bin, chain->queue);
     head = prev = chain->queue;
   }
+#else
+  head = chain->sink;
+  prev = NULL;
+#endif
 
   if (raw && !(playsink->flags & GST_PLAY_FLAG_NATIVE_VIDEO)) {
     GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (playsink, "creating ffmpegcolorspace");
@@ -1680,6 +1685,7 @@
   gst_object_ref_sink (bin);
   gst_bin_add (bin, chain->sink);
 
+#if 0
   /* we have to add a queue when we need to decouple for the video sink in
    * visualisations */
   GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (playsink, "adding audio queue");
@@ -1696,6 +1702,10 @@
     gst_bin_add (bin, chain->queue);
     prev = head = chain->queue;
   }
+#else
+  head = chain->sink;
+  prev = NULL;
+#endif
 
   /* find ts-offset element */
   chain->ts_offset =