Last.fm menu : No, all basic features are in the screen right now.

Video playback : Ilia, we didn't changed anything (Really) on the video playback. We just say "mplayer please play this, embedded mode, thanks"

The codec mess on the first second already happened on beta7 (streaming) and it's actually some videos happens others not. We really didn't touch this. :/

I think you can see also that this doesn't happen if you play from canola, but inside the video section ( a saved video )

Cheers

Marcelo