Miro open video player/client gets a major update

Dean from the Participatory Culture Foundation sez, "Miro, the free and open source internet TV application, got a nifty update today! Improvements in Miro 2.5 include: speedier performance, audio podcasts, interface polish, and lots of tweaks. The mission behind Miro, as well as its non-profit developer the Participatory Culture Foundation, is to decentralize and fully democratize television as it moves online. Miro connects viewers and creators more directly, moves open standards forward, and is built on a solid foundation of free and open source software."

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Anonymous

i am still running version 1.2
since the last update did not work on my apple computer.

It works great and plays most torrents!
Category

I heartily recommend this product! I’ve been using miro for about 6 months now, and it did streamline the way I watch my online video. Also, it introduced me to the HILARIOUS sock puppet theatre – essential viewing for all movie fans!

Download now!
Gilgongo

While I love this project, I have to very guiltily admit that over the last 6 months I’ve been using XBMC to watch the same video feeds as I’d been watching with Miro.

XBMC may be a bit of a different beast, but because it plays literally anything you can throw at it (TV feeds, movies, music), runs 3rd party plugins, has LastFM integration, fan art, cover art integration, lyrics, etc. etc., I’m afraid Miro is now lying unused on my hard drive.

I wonder does the new version of Miro minimise to the task bar correctly on Ubuntu? That used to bug me I recall.
Anonymous

Can it do netflix on Ubuntu?
Anonymous

Yeah.. I have 10 gb free and it is giving an error message every time I run it (Insufficient disk space to upgrade) It doesn’t say how much more space it needs, it just quits. great.

Don’t upgrade until they have this fixed!
Anonymous

Meh. Miro sound great, but I’ve tried it twice now and have been disapointed.

I’ll try Miro 3.0
Locobot

“Lots of Polish?” I’ll wait until the English version comes out, K thanks.
Anonymous

I’m kind of not going to install that until the packages are signed properly. Looks awesome otherwise.
Anonymous

(Disclosure: I am proud to serve as a volunteer on the Board of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, which publishes Miro)

And that’s why I’m not using it.
spinach

I’ve been using Miro for a very long time now and I recommend it wholeheartedly. It downloads my torrents at double the rate of any other torrent client (not sure why) and it works great. I admit I’ve been moving towards Boxee recently but I still use Miro for TV shows because it doesn’t take over my whole screen and is easy to minimize. Any install problems you might face are well worth it in the end.
weeble

Not a great Ubuntu install experience here… Tried adding it from Synaptics Package Manager, but it only installed 1.2.4 or something like that. When I ran it it recommended an upgrade, hyperlinking to the web-page for 2.5. Following the instructions there for Ubuntu results in big “this application cannot be authenticated” warnings, followed by a crash and a broken package on upgrade – the upgrade process doesn’t seem to check to see if Miro is already running and handle it gracefully.

I got there in the end. Still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Rodney

It’s not out for Ubuntu right now. Tomorrow, they say. *sigh* Always treated like second-class citizens.