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Remove the music preview with mouse hover  
Written by stanislavs1 the 20 Mar 10 at 22:03. New
The feature sounds nice when you read about it. In reality, it gets really annoying after a while. I realize you can disable it if you don't want it, but if little features like this will be added over time, Ubuntu will become too bloated.
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Solution #1: Remove it!
Written by stanislavs1 the 20 Mar 10 at 22:03.
Totally remove the music preview while mouse-over an audio icon.
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Solution #2: option in menu
Written by cdude42 the 21 Mar 10 at 15:07.
when you right click and the menu appears, add something that says, disable hover playback, or something like that. Because im sure theres tons of people that still use this.
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Solution #4: Option in Nautilus Preferences
Written by Akerbos the 23 Mar 10 at 23:14.
This is a Nautilus thing, so let Nautilus handle the setup.
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Solution #7: Single-click and hold for preview
Written by mydoghasworms the 19 Apr 10 at 14:19.
Instead of previewing an audio file when you hover over it, allow the user to click and hold for e.g. 1 second on the file icon to start the preview. At this point the little overlay should appear and the audio start playing.

Then, when you let go of the mouse button, the preview stops playing.

This behaviour should be configurable between the old and new behaviour in gconf, so users who still want the old preview behaviour can still have it.
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Solution #8: Click to play/pause audio preview
Written by davide the 25 May 10 at 21:15.
Audio preview in Nautilus is a tremendous nice feature, improve it with single click play/pause.
On mouse rollover display the "play" icon, after click event show "pause" icon, play sound until it finishes or until the user fires another click on audio icon. This way you can listen all the sound while moving your mouse.
Status icons proposal:

http://sitoz.org/public/brainstorm-audio-preview.png

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The loopholes of libdvdcss2 and encrypted DVD's  
Written by lucas5800 the 30 Jun 10 at 08:09. New
When you have the base installation of Ubuntu in many countries you have to break the law to play encrypted DVD's by installing libdvdcss2 and libdvdread. In addition for the average computer user this is much more work than they would be willing to do for this seemingly basic functionality.
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Solution #1: Obtain a CSS Decryption License funded by donations
Written by lucas5800 the 30 Jun 10 at 08:09.
Canonical should obtain a CSS Decryption License so Ubuntu can play DRM DVD's by default without having to install libdvdcss2 to play them. I believe that one of the reasons people are not switching to Linux is because of the loop holes you have to go through to play an encrypted DVD.
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Solution #3: Add DVD support as a pay option in Ubuntu Software Center
Written by chunknuts the 4 Jul 10 at 13:37.
If there was an easy way to purchase DVD support for an affordable price (say $10 US), I think more people would use that option than breaking the law (as it is in certain countries). Right now I am using Fluendo's GStreamer codec pack for MANY different proprietary formats (which I paid for). Imagine if when someone popped in a DVD, Ubuntu asked the user if they'd like to purchase DVD support for a small amount of money. I think many people (including myself) would pay for it.
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Solution #4: add libdvdcss into ubuntu-restricted-extras and include a tutorial with Ubuntu
Written by Cityscape the 5 Jul 10 at 16:41.
Same as solution #2 except with a tutorial that would come included with Ubuntu to show users how to install multimedia support such as DVD & MP3 support. This would be useful because many new users will not know how to install DVD support.
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Solution #5: write a libdvdcss-compatible decoder
Written by rockachu2 the 15 Jul 10 at 16:59.
combine aspects & enhance the :
VLC codecs
KMplayer codecs
and trial&error to make a compatible component.
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Solution #6: Allow to watch videos for cash
Written by Lachu the 16 Jul 10 at 14:19.
Integrate Ubuntu Shop and Ubuntu One with video rental shop or normal shop. Media downloaded by this would be in nonrestricted format. Some older movies could been offered.

Also, please, don't restrict this shop only to Ubuntu - allow to applies patches to other distribution too.
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Solution #7: See solution #8
Written by cajhne the 26 Jul 10 at 23:03.
Couldn't erase this solution. Sorry. See #8 for a better solution than the one that I posted here.
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Solution #8: Flexible Legal Solution
Written by cajhne the 3 Aug 10 at 09:08.
The purpose of Ubuntu is not to circumvent laws. Therefore the only legal AND convenient solution is a twofold solution:

Based on the region identified by the user on installation of Ubuntu, it can be determined if the user is in a country where it is legal to install and use the codecs. If this is the case, then the codecs can be automatically installed, with a small disclaimer notification about it, confirming the region of the user ("I verify that this is my country of nationality" checkbox, or somesuch). If the region is an area where it is illegal to use the codecs, then a pay option is the ONLY legal alternative at this point in time. I recommend including a pay option for those unlucky people in places where the laws prevent them from using their paid-for content on their own hardware.

If there is no "pay" solution, then unfortunately it is illegal to view the content in restricted areas, and there is no alternative than to do nothing, and leave the user to fend for themselves with respect to DVD support (as it is now). Ubuntu's purpose is to offer a free, easy to use OS, not to circumvent laws that it can do nothing about. Even integrating tutorials for how install the codecs is not going to happen. Canonical knows that's a legal nightmare, and will not do it. At this juncture, some people are going to have to pay for DVD support. They can choose not to, just as easily, and save a few bucks, and still have a perfectly usable OS, exactly how it stands today.

In the mean time, I also propose separate initiatives to add more countries to the "legal to install codecs" list, via donation to causes that fight for free use of the codecs. As more countries are added, the fewer people will have to pay. I do NOT recommend that this donation system be handled by Ubuntu or Canonical. It puts them in the hot-seat for legal action, and I think we'd all like to avoid that. :)

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Many arabic/hebrew speakers can't transcode movies  
Written by ohadbasan the 16 May 10 at 00:35. New
Many Hebrew and Arabic speakers use linux as a media server to their the media server client (could be a playstation3 for example)
some users wish to transcode the movie to include subtitles.
if they wish to transcode with hebrew/arabic subtitles - they must recompile mencoder and enable the fribidi flag.
not so friendly...
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Solution #1: Compile Mencoder with the fribidi flag as default
Written by ohadbasan the 16 May 10 at 00:35.
Compile the mencoder package with fribidi flag enabled as default

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User can adjust the delay between of audio /video stream of a movie  
Written by nsynet the 6 Sep 09 at 10:18. New
When playing some movie such as .rm format and so on,the audio stream and the video stream are not synaptic,for example,we first hear the voice for 2 senconds ,then see the mouth of the charactor open,this is the shortage of makeing the movie,but we can use software to make it up.

User should be able to use player software plug-in to adjust the audio/voice stream quicker/slower for 1,2,3 seconds.

That's my idea.
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Solution #1: add special software plugin
Written by nsynet the 6 Sep 09 at 10:18.
User should be able to use player software plug-in to adjust the audio/voice stream quicker/slower for 1,2,3 seconds.
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Solution #2: Also let the user delay/advance the subtitles
Written by the 8 Sep 09 at 18:24.
As far as I know VLC can do this, but VLC is not installed by default.

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Turn on more options in mplayer by default  
Written by Magnes the 29 Dec 08 at 13:37. New
Right know when you add vf=eq2,hue to the config file of mplayer the player will allow you to change brightness (very usefull for crappy videos), contrast, saturation and even hue of the video (keys 1,2,3,4 etc.). I didn't notice any negative impact on the mplayer so I think it should be turned on by default.
Right know when user installs mplayer from repository he may not know that this options even exist.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #16885
Written by Magnes the 29 Dec 08 at 13:37.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16885 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Playing media in a web browser is annoying  
Written by romanv the 19 Jan 09 at 22:35. New
Let's say you're on a site with an embedded video. Every current plugin, it seems, will either display the video or play the sound faithfully, but not give you many working options for moving around in the media or see how much of it has loaded. etc.
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Solution #1: A GUI with a track bar, pause/start buttons etc
Written by romanv the 19 Jan 09 at 22:35.
Media player should have a nice GUI at the bottom of them, complete with a track bar you can move around, which also shows how much of a media has loaded (maybe by changing color from white to gray (or orange, depending on what the theme says, etc) and some nice start/pause buttons, etc. In general this will improve usability of our software and operating system.

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Sell a Blu-ray software into Ubuntu Software Center  
Written by ubuntosaure the 2 Nov 09 at 19:25. New
Until open source software that can read Blu-ray, you need a proprietary solution for reading Blu-ray, which will play in addition to being legal.
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Solution #1: Sell a Blu-ray software into Ubuntu Software Center
Written by ubuntosaure the 2 Nov 09 at 19:25.
That canonical signed an agreement with fluendo, cyberlink or another in order to provide a solution for reading Blu-ray in ubuntu.
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Solution #2: Simplify the playing a Blu-ray Disc
Written by ubuntosaure the 8 Dec 09 at 19:52.
Using solutions Doom9's Forum and MPlayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1327197

For simplified the playing a blu-ray, without copying the contents to the hard drive.

We want a simple solution. This is not a solution:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

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The media playback applications are bulky  
Written by ginjaninja405 the 27 Oct 10 at 23:43. New
The GUI of the Movie Player takes up to much space with the buttons, which I feel is reflected in a lot of linux applications. You can use much less space for the buttons and still achieve what you'd want to do. You generally only watch one thing at a time, so a playlist panel isn't really needed either. The buttons are so spaced out and all that grey space where there is nothing, I'd much like it to all be squeezed together to save screen space. I'd say the photo viewer doesn't suffer from it as much, but these programs can save screen space.
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Solution #1: A transparent box for controls when viewing media
Written by ginjaninja405 the 27 Oct 10 at 23:43.
When you open up Movie Player, You could lose some space if you just make the tools for controlling the media above the media itself, in a transparent box maybe. Losing the playlist panel may make the design behind that easier, as most people only watch one thing at a time. This could also apply to the photo viewer, putting the tools to use with the media above it in the same place as the movie player, making controlling general media a unified experience, whilst also making it look slicker. With deep integration of this idea, other applications could use it too.

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to learn languages, e.g. dispalying English subtitles and Chinese subtitles  
Written by rabbitlovers the 25 Nov 10 at 16:09. New
xine's close caption and selected subtitle e.g. Chinese overlap each other. I suggest that the position of subtitles can be customized just like Hero DVD

http://download.cnet.com/3001-7970_4-10127412.html?spi=e15347ee7361ddbcb0a12579 d7b50957

user id : freeware
password : 5q7p-199h-1hbj-uqg7


In 2004, I heard that Herosoft 3000 could run in Linux.
http://www.104soft.com/software/25592.htm
But I cannot make it run in Ubuntu.
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Solution #1: enable customization of positions of language subtitles for a media player
Written by rabbitlovers the 25 Nov 10 at 16:09.
enable customization of positions of language subtitles

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Skinless Mplayer  
Written by anbuselvan2004 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:52. New
Remove skins and menus (let there be an option to show menu & border when we right click inside the video in Mplayer)
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Solution #1: Skinless MPlayer
Written by anbuselvan2004 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:52.
Let the menus be hidden when playing a video file, and the video be skinless (no borders, no menus) with shadow effect (not too much).

Should be a promising one

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