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Speakers and sound graphical configuration tool  
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Written by Ubuwu the 28 Feb 08 at 18:37. Global category: Multimedia. New
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)
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #129
Written by Ubuwu the 28 Feb 08 at 18:37.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #129 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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Solution #2: Add audio settings button to every window's top panel
Written by Kiwii the 8 Jul 11 at 17:13.
It would be handy if there were a volume control and device selection button right on an audio enabled application's top panel. So the users knows exactly where to control the volume of wich application. It could be in the top-right corner of each app that is playing or listening to sound in unity.

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Support the Gnash project  
Written by howlingmadhowie the 29 Feb 08 at 08:36. Global category: Multimedia. New
adobe flash has become ridiculously slow. it's perverse that i can play a dvd in full screen mode and that uses about 5% of my processor, while as a small flash window on youtube stutters. as well as this, there is of course no 64-bit version, or a version for sparc/powerpc under linux.

the solution is obvious--gnash must be developed. could canonical/ubuntu invest some development time in getting gnash working well? that would be great :)

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #1128
Written by howlingmadhowie the 29 Feb 08 at 08:36.
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Solution #2: Add hardware acceleration to Gnash
Written by Lyfang the 24 Jul 11 at 16:44.
"Splitted Desktop Systems has now implemented VA-API acceleration support within Gnash"

Source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU1MA

Gnash open source Flash player implementation with hardware acceleration. Don't use closed-source players.

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Blu-Ray Support  
Written by openmedia the 29 Feb 08 at 05:01. Global category: Multimedia. New
Support for media formats should no longer be an optional part of any Linux distribution. We need full support for Blu-Ray playback and it should be implemented in FOSS. I don't want to rely on commercially licensed tools for media playback.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #935
Written by openmedia the 29 Feb 08 at 05:01.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #935 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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Solution #2: Burning blu-ray in brasero.
Written by ubuntosaure the 21 Jun 10 at 17:09.
Brasero has to be inspired by growisofs who knows how to burn blu-ray.
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Solution #3: Canonical App Store
Written by andruk the 1 Apr 09 at 05:54.
Sell a software package that can play Blu Ray discs in the Canonical Store. That's what it's for.

Canonical doesn't have to sponsor the development, they just have to find a different company to create the Blu Ray player for Linux and sell it in their store.

Helping people stay legal in their area, regardless of how stupid or ill-informed the laws may be in those regions, is a good way to get users who want to follow the law.
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Solution #4: Fluendo or somebody else develop a paid-for closed source plugin
Written by andrewm the 2 Apr 09 at 13:50.
Fluendo do offer legal paid-for media codecs for Linux, they don't seem to have a Bluray product yet but they do offer DVD decoders. As GStreamer and most other media frameworks are LGPL licensed it should be possible to develop a closed source paid-for Bluray decoding plugin that could be purchased by Ubuntu users or included in paid-for binary distros (not Ubuntu).

Hardly an optimal solution but it's probably the only way of implementing Blu-ray legally on Linux.
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Solution #5: Ask Sony to provide a Linux application
Written by sanketmedhi the 7 Apr 09 at 13:15.
Ask Sony to provide a Linux application for your Blu-Ray drive. Or at least ask them to build a Linux driver which can be used with some Linux application.

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A good Equalizer  
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Written by software the 29 Feb 08 at 12:29. Global category: Multimedia. New
A good system equalizer for ubuntu with GUI.
1 Equalizer for the whole system.
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Solution #1: One Equalizer for the whole system.
Written by software the 29 Feb 08 at 12:29.
Create one Equalizer GUI for the whole system.
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Solution #2: Graphic equalizer for audio output
Written by cyberix the 4 Oct 09 at 00:42.
Add a simple graphic equalizer to sound preferences for changing volumes of certain frequency ranges.



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Better (non-linear) volume control  
Written by edm1 the 21 Mar 08 at 15:18. Global category: Multimedia. New
I'm not sure if this is fixed by using PulseAudio but i find the volume control in gnome is way too linear. Because of this the user has very little control with extreme loud and quiet volumes. For example, when reducing the volume it will decrease to a certain level then suddenly just go silent.
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Solution #1: Use logarithmic fader that mimics human hearing
Written by edm1 the 21 Mar 08 at 15:18.
Much more control would be given with a logarithmic scale as kind of explained on this website: http://sound.westhost.com/project01.htm

I'm not a developer but i assume this could be integrated in a number of places: gnome-mixer, pulseaudio server or even closer to the hardware.
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Solution #2: Customize Step Size
Written by Akerbos the 28 Nov 10 at 08:38.
There is no reason to assume that people need a higher resolution on some parts of the spectrum and lower on others. Therefore, provide user customisable step size (e.g. via pavucontrol) with a default that is more finegrained than today.

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Card Reader Integration  
Written by TutoWRM the 28 Feb 08 at 23:54. Global category: Multimedia. New
Until now it's only possible to read SD cards on multi-card-readers, like ricoh, that are integrated on most laptops on this days. And difficult the wireless options that this cards readers provide.

SD - Works
Memorystick / Pro - Don't Work
xD - Don't Work
MMC - Don't Work
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #254
Written by TutoWRM the 28 Feb 08 at 23:54.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #254 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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Support OpenGL 3.0 and other 3D projects  
Written by JoeLeKiffeur the 12 Apr 08 at 20:25. Global category: Multimedia. New
I think Canonical should have to support and improve 3D projects, in order to jeopardy the Micro$oft DirectX' API.

It's interesting for all 3D games, or other apps.

I hope 3D developpers will be interested, and will migrate to GNU/Linux.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6897
Written by JoeLeKiffeur the 12 Apr 08 at 20:25.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6897 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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One but simple coverter for Audio/Video  
Written by tomaszx the 2 Mar 08 at 22:20. Global category: Multimedia. New
for more formats we install codecs and this way works.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2592
Written by tomaszx the 2 Mar 08 at 22:20.
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Subtitle and Video Editing Tools  
Written by noumaan the 2 Mar 08 at 14:29. Global category: Multimedia. New
I recently had a chance to work with subtitles and I found out that despite the presence of several tools none of them worked like their windows counterpart did. Aegisub is a good open source editor and I think Ubuntu community should make sure that we soon get some kind of official repositories for it. Also tools to create new DVD videos, edit IFOs, ripping DVDs, and editing movies should be enhanced.

Kino is a great video editing tool but it is no where near Windows Movie Maker. It should be improved.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2479
Written by noumaan the 2 Mar 08 at 14:29.
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HD Video - GPU acceleration  
Written by X-MATRIX the 21 Aug 08 at 09:38. Global category: Multimedia. New
Processing of HD-Video (Playback) should done by GPU to reduce CPU Usage. On older Systems a HD-Video Playback isn't possible under Linux.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12404
Written by X-MATRIX the 21 Aug 08 at 09:38.
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Solution #2: It's possible, however,
Written by nesquik the 23 Oct 10 at 22:52.
it should be built-in. You can find a guide here:
VLC: http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_VAAPI
GStreamer: http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/gstreamer-vaapi/

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