Problem: When listening to a radio stream and then download a file the stream has to rebuffer.

There are a number of hacks that sometimes work and sometimes not to play and more importantly transfer the audiobooks from audible.com to devices.

This a very popular service and they have a drm solution, that I have complained about.

Now there are six GStreamer packages in the repositories (Dirac video plugin, extra plugins, ffmpeg video plugin, fluendo MPEG2 demuxing plugin, plugins for aac, xvid, mpeg2, faad, and plugins for mms, wavpack, quicktime, musepack). What about merging also those packages into one single package?

It would be really awesome for me as a fan of open standards to be able to port my whole library to a free format.

The most common case would be mp3/aac to oga I guess, but i think this only works with lossless formats properly (as commented already).

Of course this shouldn't happen by default it is a very CPU hungry operation but an option either song by song or the whole library in settings (something like "When a new song is added to library convert it to ...")

A major limitation of using Windows codecs is the use of Wine or questionable licensing. The use of Wine or DLL wrapper style codecs should be avoided. Real has already implemented licensed versions that are native to Linux in the RealPlayer product and licensed to the end user. Let's use these codecs in other applications, too.

The commercial version of RealPlayer includes native Unix implementations of all the major Windows Codecs like WMA9, WMV8, WMV9, all the Real codecs, and many others.

When RealPlayer is downloaded and licensed to the end user by Real Networks, we ought to use these licensed codecs supplied by RealPlayer in other applications like MPlayer, GStreamer, Xine, etc.

in ubuntu 8.10 there are new visual installed they should be renamed to only the adjective signifying their characteristic

for example rename should be
libvisual infinite plugin plugin v0.1-> infinite


small polish like this go long way in making ubuntu reach the goal of matching os-x usabiliy

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added Monday, October 06 2008 reply to comments
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well cheesehead to make my point clear

-if you start firefox it does not say firefox 3.0.3 it just says firefox.

-program in ubuntu are renamed from default name (upstream name) to name that just signifies their purpose
ooffice -writer 2.4->OpenOffice.org Word Processor
ooffice -calc 2.4->OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet

-well these renaming have been extended to all launcher in ubuntu
gnome-dictionary 2.24->dictionary

well in all the above cases launcher have been renamed to a simpler name removing all unnecessary information which was done to reduce confusion (contrary to what cheesehead is saying)

->if you want to search word you look for app named dictionary not gnome-dictionary 2.24 this extra information just leads to confusion for end user
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