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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."
You also need to focus on the PUBLISH side. In particular, I would push a publisher for Musicians. Make it compete against MTV, etc.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Since many distributions don't have it in their repositories yet, you might want to grab the source and build it yourself.
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?
The last time I tried Miro it installed something called "OpenCandy" on my system without my permission. I think I'll pass until the Miro developers realize who owns this computer....HINT: Me, not them, not opencandy, or whatever else wants to piggyback with the installer.
--bornagainpenguin
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Fuck those stupid code names for Ubuntu! Put the damn version numbers up like normal people. Alliterative animal names are for 4 year olds. Get over them.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I notice they mention sites like Hulu and CBS on their site, but I assume this is only available to US residents? They cunningly don't mention any restrictions.
Have they got round this, or is this content still blacked out for most of the world?
To any developers, please listen carefully.
From and end-user perspective, BugZilla is a complicated, confusing, steaming pile of shit!
As an end-user I shouldn't have to "create an account", "login" or anything else to report a damn bug. Especially from a link within the program itself. A brief bit of text outlining what makes up a good bug report is fine, but I shouldn't have to jump thru hoops just to say "X is broken, here is how to reproduce it, here is my config".
For other developers, it is fine. For end-users, it is a nightmare.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
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.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
I understand and concur about not wanting programs to install stuff you don't want, but I thought I'd mention that this is not as bad as having proprietary software do something similar. With proprietary software you have no option to edit anything to make it work as you wish, or get it edited for you by someone you trust. With FLOSS that option exists even if you choose not to take advantage of it. FLOSS actually respects your ownership by giving you everything you need to make the program behave as you wish. Proprietary software does not respect your position that you own and should control your computer. Whether you are willing to leverage software freedom to your fullest benefit is a completely different issue that is entirely in your control.
As it so happens, the Miro team is a pretty nice and responsive bunch of people so I don't think you'll find Miro doing something so unexpected now.
Digital Citizen
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.
Seems like no memory problem for me:
http://i41.tinypic.com/jl5nb8.png
on mac: 90MB "real memory", smaller than firefox at 101MB
More organizations need the term "hell-bent on" in their mission statement.
moox. for a new generation.
Pedophile Panda?
Sadistic Swan?
Terrorist Turtle?
Pirate Pinniped?
Homosexual Hippopotamus?
Republican Ram?
Lesbian Lobster?
Genocidal Gerbil
Transsexual Termite?
Homicidal Hummingbird?
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Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It also tries to integrate your torrent downloads so that you can track them from Miro as well.
I'm running this on a mac and it appears that there's still not yet a proper solution for a torrent client with RSS. UTorrent was recently released for mac but it lacks many key features of the Windows client such as the RSS feed. http://tvrss.net/ seems to be a good, clean torrent feed and you can key in search terms to make sure you're only getting one provider of the show at a time. Will probably work great on Windows.
I'm a recent mac convert and am surprised to read other mac heads saying they preferred running windows torrent programs under wine or in xp under parallels rather than deal with the sucky offerings for mac clients.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
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?
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
Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud.
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.
...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.