Jaunty, or not so Jaunty?

I was scared of updating to Jaunty. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Never go for version 1.0, etc., etc. But, after all, this is 9.04 not 1.0, so I clicked the update button. A mere matter of hours later, and Jaunty was operational. Why does it take so long? My broadband might not be the world's fastest, but still.

Well, it's working now, and, you know what, I can tell virtually no difference. The volume control is now horizontal. You get a countdown message when you shut the computer down. Wow!

On the downside, Tracker went bananas (but seems to have calmed down again now), and playing DVDs is not a happy experience. In fact, it's barely doable.

I'm not sure if this is due to Jaunty, but in Movieplayer, the video plays, as long as you don't try to touch any controls, such as skip forward or back. As soon as you do, it crashes. VLC works, but, for some reason, it changes my 4 x 3 home-made DVD (from television) into a shape like a piece of A4 or letter paper in portrait mode. In despair, I installed Mplayer (confusing "front ends"), which does sort-of work, but you can't get at the controls while it's playing. Well, not easily. I want something like PowerDVD, which, on the dreaded Windows "just works". I shall try never to watch a DVD again on Ubuntu.