Ken, the problem with not autostarting is that dbus activation is resulting in the service activating at unfortunate times. Popey filed a bug in which apparently the video player has some kind of social integration, so after booting, the first time you try to watch a video, instead you're bombarded with friends' notifications. it's probably better to bombard with notifications at startup than at video-play time ;-)
Ken, the problem with not autostarting is that dbus activation is resulting in the service activating at unfortunate times. Popey filed a bug in which apparently the video player has some kind of social integration, so after booting, the first time you try to watch a video, instead you're bombarded with friends' notifications. it's probably better to bombard with notifications at startup than at video-play time ;-)