Miro 2.5.0

Participatory Culture Foundation - (Open Source)

Miro is a free HD video player that allows to play almost all kind of video file having many codecs included.

Miro intends to be initially a platform for Internet TV, smart and modern, but also promote the emergence of alternative channels. It offers a complete synchronization solution for Android phones, drawing heavily iTunes for iDevices in order to provide maximum tool to synchronize media or podcasts that iTunes libraries has as well.

Miro features a large number of codecs to immediately enjoy all movies , music and video clips without manual handling and also proposes to convert files before sync between devices . Amazon and Android Market are also present to provide quick access to paid or free applications download platforms and direct installation on smartphones and tablets.

The PCF (Participatory Culture Foundation) editor brings its browser, player, search, manager media library and platform into a new era. Indeed, in line with the famous "DoubleTwist" Miro seeks to establish itself as iTunes for Android Smartphones.

The software offers the possibility and subscribe to video podcasts, but also to search for and retrieve videos on many platforms as well as blogs and BitTorrent links. Once downloaded , they can be viewed in full screen directly from the built-in reader application . Particularly effective media player Miro supports most popular video and audio formats.

Miro allows to define a number of keyboard shortcuts, which can use its wireless keypad as a remote control.

Title:: Miro 2.5.0
File Size:: 28.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 23 Jul 2009
Publisher:: Participatory Culture Foundation
Homepage:: http://www.participatoryculture.org
MD5 Checksum:: D3D9C8085D4AEE2045E564B109293975

* New features
o #11564 (all) organize library by 'audio' 'video' and 'other'
o #11496 (all) let people download from pages that we detect are downloadable
o #11497 (all) bigger search box on the search tab
o #11406 (all) allow esc to stop playback when not in fullscreen (Thanks Uwe!)
o #11561 (all) Audio Playback behavior
o (all) better handling for torrent directories that have multiple files in them
o (all) better startup performance
o (all) rewrote database layer from an object database to a relational database

* Bug fixes
o #11567 (all) Sort order lost when switching views
o #11464 (all) Fix random minor typos and inconsistencies (Thanks Uwe!)
o #11484 (all) Fix random typos (Thanks Uwe!)
o #11617 (all) Missing license headers in some files
o #11660 (all) user agent problems
o #11784 (all) new counter displays when it shouldn't
o #11366 (all) performance - improve time from launch to play video
o #11368 (all) performance: improve time from launch to use
o #11627, #11629, #11631, #11632 (all) [Patch-included] Pylint cleanup (Thanks Daniël!)
o #19094 (GTK) hitting enter key in the add channel dialog doesn't add the channel
o #7570 (GTK) audio distortion on playback (Thanks Conrad!)
o #11397 (GTK) autoupdate disabled on gtkx11
o #11467 (GTK) [Patch Included] Dragging multiple feeds to a folder is not possible (Thanks Jerry!)
o #11526 (GTK) [Patch Included] Cannot select multiple sites (Thanks Jerry!)
o #11583 (GTK) Can't compile against seamonkey xulrunner package (Thanks Larry!)
o #11687 (GTK) thumnbail generation fails when using gstreamer with released versions of miro
o #11662 (GTK) Date format is not localized
o #10847 (GTK) Remove bsddb support
o #11720 (GTK) Segmentation fault with xine after playback
o #11783 (GTK) unknown locales causes crash
o #11262 (GTK) python 2.6 support
o #11874 (GTK) miro doesn't place it's icons according to FreeDesktop? spec during installation
o #3067 (GTK) xscreensaver support (Thanks James!)
o #10904 (GTK/Wind) hitting enter key in the add channel dialog doesn't add the channel
o #11624 (Win) Win 2.0.x install missing something and prevents XP Install
o #11553 (Win) windows uninstall doesn't remove moviedata_util and imagemagick
o #11904 (Win) Could not set user locale
o #11819 (osx) make os x overlay fade after 2 seconds
o #11957 (osx) Ogg Theora video doesn't play well within Os X

* Updates
o #11769 (Wind) updated to VLC 1.0

* Other changes
o #11758 (all) Remove Yahoo! video from list of search engines

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