I'm hard of hearing, and closed caption support should either be added to totem or a dvd player that has closed caption support should become the default dvd player in ubuntu.

Right now, I've heard that vlc media player 0.9 will provide support for closed captioning. No other player that I can find supports CC or will support it in ubuntu.

Closed captioning is not the same as subtitles. Some dvds will have CC, but no subtitles for it.

Windows Media Center supports captioning, and so should the ubuntu media players.

Sincerely,
Susanna777

Edit: I have recently discovered the SMPlayer supports displaying captions, however it reads the captions data and displays it like subtitles. It makes DVDs with only CC accessible, however, I prefer the black box for better contrast and visibility.

From Dapper to Intrepid I have NEVER managed to get Totem-Gstreamer to run DVDs... and before you ask I do all the correct things properly every time. For some releases I have used a fresh install and tried making it work manually, a fresh install and automatix, and a fresh install and medibuntu - but it still doesn't work.

On every system I have had to install mplayer, vlc, and sometimes Totem-xine, and for intrepid ogle... depending on how fickle each particular Ubuntu release has turned out to be.

It seems crazy that there's obviously the code out there spread out over the various media players to make pretty much everything work with one or the other of them. Why can't we make a really big effort to pool the best of all of them to make the default Ubuntu media player work with everything on everyone's machine.

I'm NOT arguing for including non-free codecs in a default install... however, I AM arguing for making Totem and gstreamer so good that they actually work when I download those codecs. Why is it that - on my machine - one dvd works on mplayer, another on vlc... and none of them on Totem Gstreamer?

Why not spend a year making it work really well... and even if the non-free and not-legal-everywhere codecs can't be included with Ubuntu, why not fix them too since *EVERYONE* is going to install them anyway?

In a nutshell:
1) MAKE TOTEM WORK.
2) And when I download a codec not provided by Ubuntu MAKE TOTEM WORK with it.

It would be great if the streaming BBC Videos (BBC iPlayer videos as well) could be added to Totem in the sidebar like the BBC radio streams have been added.

when i open some sound file in firefox and there is enabled visualizations and i have slow PC then its terrible

I would love a music library/player like rhythmbox to display an audacity style waveform of the song I'm listening to.

Benefits:
1) Easy scrolling to listen to a specific section of a song
2) One can asses the quality of the mastering - overcompressed, clipped and over amplified music will become glaringly obvious
3) Raise awareness of the loudness war ruining the fidelity of many modern recordings.
4) You get an insight into the entire mastering process of the album

Implementation:
Right above or below the scroll bar.

Mock-up image:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3093197593_850abb5f8e_o.png

Like in vlc, an option in the drop down menu to zoom in the video to change it's aspect ratio by cropping off the sides.

It's very handy if you're watching a widescreen movie on a 3:4 screen.

When I add files to a playlist, in the dialogue shown, I cannot delete files, or create new folders etc. This is consistent across all Ubuntu programs, so not a problem, but it might be handy to be able to organise files in the "open" dialogue.

This is a huge one I think. I dual boot windows and ubuntu only because no player can play MMS:// streams which are password protected. I tried with totem and the mms:// streams play but it doesn't show a box in which I can type up a password instead of that it shows me a box which says access denied or something like this. I don't really think that a box in which users like me can enter their accounts for the protected stream is so much of a big deal just someone has to try to do it. I made a little bit of research and I read that mms:// is not a windows extention which means that nothing can stop you from doing this little upgrade. Thank you in advice..

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Would be good if there was some easy way to lower the read speed during playback of cd/dvd media. If Totem for example could automatically lower the revs during playback, that would be enough.

Some optical drives are just too loud, this could be a separate utility, but i think Totem plug-in would probably be the easier way to go. I chose Totem since that is just about the only time when theres need for this kind of setting.