Miro 2.0 Launches Today

soDean writes "Miro just launched their 2.0 release today. The free and open source HD video player and Internet TV features an all-new interface and an entirely rewritten UI engine, plus tons of new features and improvements — it's less of a collection of new stuff and more of a rethinking of the whole experience. You can download Miro 2.0 here for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Miro is developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, hell-bent on making Internet video more open and decentralized, along with a dedicated community of users, volunteers, translators, testers, and coders."

Comments

Problem with video players in Ubuntu

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I can't be alone in my problems with Ubuntu's media player. I installed Ubuntu in a VPC in order to be able to surf porn sites on my work computer and be undetectable in case someone tried to go through my cache. Things worked great except that I simply wasn't able to get video to work in the media player.

It's not the end of the world. I can of course download static images, but sometimes it's more enjoyable to see porn in motion.

Anyone else have the same problem? Does Miro solve this problem?

Re:Miro + ???

[Anonymous Coward]

It appears "OpenCandy" is only available for Windows, so I believe Microsoft owns your computer.

Re:Nice, BUT

[buswolley]

I have one of thos einternet connections many just dream about..University BBone...ANyway, I got Miro and started to download content like a madman. 10-20 concurrent downloads all running at 1-10 megabit... It was great...

Then the university admins cut me down to 56k modem speed for 2 weeks to teach me a lesson.

Be careful with Miro. :P

Re:Ubuntu Names

[Anonymous Coward]

Awwww. Somebody is a sad salamander!

Further "alternative"distributions name suggestion

[denzacar]

Pedophile Panda?
Sadistic Swan?
Terrorist Turtle?
Pirate Pinniped?
Homosexual Hippopotamus?
Republican Ram?
Lesbian Lobster?
Genocidal Gerbil
Transsexual Termite?
Homicidal Hummingbird?
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OSX 10.4 ppc

[Pictish Prince]

A modestly sized program, and easy to install. I told it to go catalog my media and it grabbed some pr0n it couldn't even play and some .ogg files from Wesnoth that I turn off the sound to avoid hearing. Then it crashed.

Forced quit and tried it again. Watched a funny Onion spot and some bullshit propaganda called "The New World Order." Then it crashed again.

Maybe I'll wait for 3.0