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

Build instructions

[ChienAndalu]

Since many distributions don't have it in their repositories yet, you might want to grab the source and build it yourself.

Re:Build instructions

[markdavis]

No, it is not for "OSX, Windows, and Ubuntu".

It is for "MacOS, MS-Windows, and Linux". There, fixed that for you.

Anyway, Miro is already in the repositories for Mandriva, SuSe, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Pardus... which probably covers about 95-98% of Linux users.

Re:Miro + ???

[oboreruhito]

OpenCandy was removed from Miro two months ago after user complaints.

Hi All,

We're going to remove OpenCandy from our installer next week. Thanks for pushing back on this.

We still think the core idea of open source projects promoting one another is a great one, and we'll continue to support and promote other FOSS projects whenever possible.

~Jesse

Also from that post:

OpenCandy is a a software recommendation engine that we added recently in order to suggest other free and open source software to our users. You can find out about the organization at www.opencandy.com.

I wasn't aware that it permanently left their recommendation engine on the user's machine after running it. We'll look into that right now and fix it as soon as possible.

Re:Hulu, Linux, Miro and Flash

[SlashdotOgre]

Well according tot the article, streaming flash only works in Windows & OSX, by your post title I presume you're running some form of Linux. The exact quote is, "You can add streaming sites like Hulu to your sidebar (note: streaming with Flash only works in Windows and OSX)".

This is unfortunate, although not a show stopper. Although it's probably coincidence I installed Windows in VirtualBox on my Gentoo based desktop just to stream Hulu to my Xbox 360 via PlayOn last night.

Anyone know of an open source Hulu streamer (ideally one that supports UPNP for Xbox 360/PS3 support)? I've been serving local content over UPNP via fuppes (using their SVN releases, works great on the 360), but I doubt they'll be implementing Hulu support any time soon.

UI is mouse centric. Prefer Freevo/MythTV style UI

[Anonymous Coward]

The UI is mouse centric.

I like some of the features,
but the UI is not useful on a media center,
as it complexity prevents the use of an IR remote to control it.

I look forward 3.0.

Re:Can I get Battlestar Galactica in HD on it?

[Fallingcow]

It heavily promotes a large number of legal video RSS feeds (many of them very good), however you can use any torrent (or direct download, I think) RSS feed you want with the program. So, find a BSG HD torrent RSS feed (I'm sure they exist several places) and you're good to go.

Re:I used to use Miro...

[drDugan]

Seems like no memory problem for me:

http://i41.tinypic.com/jl5nb8.png

on mac: 90MB "real memory", smaller than firefox at 101MB

Re:BugZilla sucks!

[chill]

Click the "Report Bug" link in Miro and you'll see the connection. It opens a link to their BugZilla form, asking you to create an account or login.

Re:Ubuntu Names

[chill]

The download section for Miro doesn't use the numbers, only the names and they aren't the only ones that insist on doing that.

Network settings?

[argent]

I open it up and what do I get, about 6 dialogs telling me it can't connect to servers.

1. Don't connect without asking me, thanks.
2. You apparently can't connect until I can set my network settings, I guess you don't use the OS proxies.
3. You don't have any place to set the proxies.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Re:Freedom is still better than non-freedom.

[GigaplexNZ]

No, the argument that we want to make is "Because when we fuck up your computer, you can still fix it". Shit happens, software isn't perfect.

Re:BugZilla sucks!

[cerberusss]

There should be no reason they'd need your email address unless I wish to receive digests of posts via email.

Well, in the case of Bugzilla (which was what the GP was talking about), it's useful because the software notifies you when comments are made or questions are asked about the bug you logged.

Miro & tvRSS.net

[Anonymous Coward]

How to setup Miro for automatic downloading of your favorite shows. I've been doing this for a couple of years now. Grab your feeds from tvRSS.net. Use the filters properly and will d/l only the episodes you want. Enjoy.

Linux is not a platform

[Burz]

...nor is it an operating system to most end users because the kernel + GNU toolchain do not provide services they need.

With that said, the Miro project does NOT package software for other Linux-based distros. Look at their download page for crisesakes.... The non-Ubuntu releases are put together and distributed outside of the Miro project.

And this says it all:

For Miro bugs on Mandriva, use the Mandriva bug tracker.

etc, etc.

The authors do not directly support Miro outside of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu operating systems.