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Miro 2.0 Launches Today

Posted by kdawson on from the on-the-wall dept.

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."

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  1. Build instructions by ChienAndalu · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    1. Re:Build instructions by markdavis · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

  2. Re:Miro + ??? by oboreruhito · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Hulu, Linux, Miro and Flash by SlashdotOgre · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  4. Re:Can I get Battlestar Galactica in HD on it? by Fallingcow · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  5. Re:BugZilla sucks! by chill · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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