Create and include a 'Speakers and sound' graphical configuration tool that would be able to configure the system soundcards and speaker settings (from simple stereo to surround 5.1, 7.1)

I'm using rockbox - open source firmware, it has a video player, and every time I open a movie, it saves last seen point

for ex

I'm watching Big Buck Bunny, and I'm stopping player on 2:03. Next time i load the same file, player asks me if I want to start on last point

it somehow reminds me firefox sessions saver

it would be a small, but good extras

Totem should have better looking icons, better buttons and appearance and less clutter, I mean smaller size buttons are good, I see huge width of navigation panel when viewing a movie and it doesn’t auto hide when left alone, there should be a way to auto hiding controls and bring back when a cursor I over it or a key is pressed. Allow resizing movie with keyboard plus and minus keys. Arrow keys to move volume and skip forward and back. Make it possible (option) for video to fit in whole window And equalizer and context menu support to add to play list, enqueue in totem play list. I really want to see more than one color for totem and more plug ins and skins if possible.“ turn off and turn on” subtitles in video’s. Integrate into brasero for burning videos and
Sync functionality to portable devices and lastly better management of library like exaile although mp3/video tag editing is worst in exaile. Change the way volume is controlled rather put volume control as a old telephone dialer. Better integration into nautilus and show me better navigation inside totem to open file,
or atleast refresh the theme or icons for totem like kde.

Ubuntu has this wonderful UbuFox integration that prompts you to install missing plugins via the package manager when you visit a webpage that requires Flash.

But YouTube (and some other sites) will tell you you're missing Flash and then link you to the Adobe Flash download webpage, which has a .tar.gz and an .rpm but no .deb download.

Since we already have .deb files for flashplugin-nonfree in the repositories, would it be difficult for Ubuntu/Canonical to convince Adobe to host it alongside the other download options?

When watching flash movies, for example BBC Iplayer, ubuntu allows my screen to dim and switch off.

I do not want to change my settings so that it waits an hour or so for my computer to be 'idle' as I do wish to save power etc.

It already knows when I am watching a movie in totem or something and blocks the computer from going idle, I would like this to also work for flash movies.

I see that a lot of sites use flash for content that is not movies, so possibly only allow the flash to block idle when the browser is visible on the screen, i.e. non minimised.

When Totem comes across a file that breaks, instead of failing on that file, it should skip to the next one, when a playlist is involved. The message should still be displayed to notify the user, but it shouldn't interrupt playback unless some kind of looping failure is occurring.

Totem is a good player, but vlc is much better. Please put the best software as default in ubuntu, because the problems of new users , coming from windows, will decrease a lot with vlc, that recognise more codecs than totem.

If you plug a video camera (ieee1392 Firewire) and launch Kino (for example) your camera won't be detected.
You first need to modprobe the raw1394 module and then chmod the /dev/raw1394 device (according to many howto's...). That's not user-friendly.
The default user should be included in the group of /dev/raw1394 and the system should automatically detect the camera and load the raw1394 module

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

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When you close rythmbox it should remember which song or radio you were listening to. So when you launch it again, you can press play and directly listen to your last played song or radio.

1st example:
At work I only use rythmbox to listen to a webradio, so every time I open it I have to go to the "radio" button and double click on my radio stream. It should remember that I was listening to this radio and when I re-start it I should just have to click play to listen to my webradio