There are a lot of problems with commercial audio codecs like .ape and so on - no Linux distribution can normally play this. The only solution is to convert things to flac. Could Ubuntu deal with this issue?

When you right-click on a file then Properties, information under Basic is cryptic and incomplete. Take for example when you do it on an avi file, it will show you:

Type: AVI video
Size: XXMB
Location: /home/user
Volume: Unknown
MIME-type: video/x-msvideo

What is Volume: unknown? Wish it would give more meaningful information like a/v formats, a/v codecs, fps, etc.

The problem is that when you have a clip in kino (and other video editing tools) and you need a better tool to edit the audio you have to extract the audio and open it in Audacity.

I would like to have multimedia application integrate more wit each other to edit the audio in kino (and other video editing tools) with the Audacity editing capability without having to export anything.

When doing audio/video-chats you probably have a headset plugged in or a bluetooth headset connected as the sound quality of built-in mics not that good.

Imagine your chat partner sends you the link to a Youtube-Video. You start the playback and the sound of it is played through your (mono) headphones while your partner comments on the video. This results in you neither understanding your partner nor the video. Try it out - it just does not work. This is probably because your brain can't separate the different signals as they come from the same source (this even gets worse if you have an on-ear-headset)

This is only an example. There are many other situations where the proposed solution below is advantageous (see there).

MPlayer is probably one of the best media players on Linux... but it does not keep the original aspect ratio of videos!

Sure we can select "Aspect ratio -> Original", but as soon as we resize the window, the video is distorted!
I mean, why can't we at least have an option to always keep the original aspect ratio of the videos?!?

All other players I tried in ubuntu even do it by default:
-GNOME MPlayer
-Kaffeine
-KMPlayer
-KPlayer
-Totem
-SMPlayer
-VLC
...

Sometimes I listen to music and I am also browsing the web. The music should automatically "dim" with a procentage when, for example, I watch a video on Youtube or a trailer.

Also, when I watch a documentary I like to hear to some music in the background.

Now I have to set manually the volume for each individual application.

It would be nice for the system to consider current volume setting to be "foreground" (100%); background should be "foreground-35%" for example (definable). Switching from one multimedia app to another brings that particular app in sound foreground and sets background for all the other sources.

Checkbox should enable / disable feature; background fade level should be configurable

Change sound software to allow the microphone to work with skype and the sound recorder. This has been a persistent problem with both my Intel and Amd architecture.

Hi everyone,

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=175215&highlight=adobe+rep o
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html

Why hasn't adobe created a repo for apt? ubuntu is one of the most popular distros! I use fedora 8 x86 64 and the mozilla plugin obviously works because i can view pdfs within firefox.

I've tried evince, it simply doesn't render fonts as good as adobe, thanks i hope to see some action on this.

There are multiple applications in Ubuntu, both optional or part of the default install that are capable of creating media files such as Ogg Theora, MP3 or a bunch of video formats. Having some global option to set which media formats you prefer for creation, and to allow applications to pick up these settings would make a lot of sense: A user that prefers FLAC or MP3 could make his choice in one location, instead of configuring each application individually.

We need a way to be able to lock a specific max volume on different sound card ports (possibly in the upcoming pulse audio volume control)

Many users have been concerned of accidentally putting the volume too high blasting their earphones and eardrums to bits.

Whilst there is no generic way of letting users set the max decibles allowed on the port, users could set their own on the individual ports, or on the master volume. It would also let users leave the maximum volume for their amplifier SPDIF port unlocked, whilst setting your analog jack (which you would use for headphones) locked quite low, so that if they maintain different sound output devices, they all continue to perform well.

Everyone wins, and no extra hardware is required. This is the only way of generically fixing the problem with current technology unfortunately. This idea is based off Natureflow's idea, of Preventing too loud sound