Miro 3.5.0

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 3.5.0
File Size:
37.1 MB
Requirements:
Windows (All Versions)
Language:
en-us
License:
Open Source
Date Added:
21 Oct 2010
Publisher:
Participatory Culture Foundation
Homepage:
http://www.participatoryculture.org
MD5 Checksum:
AC0AB5A21EB6E1C2487139E34979E4BE

* New features
- (all) when user clicks on videos, torrents, feeds in miro browser, intercept them
- (all) language preference
- (all) Remember selected view in "Library" > "Video"
- (all) ability to cancel queued autodownloads
- (all) switch from httpclient to libcurl
- (all) video search tab is unclear
- (all) item view should show resume point for playback
- (all) prev button should go to start of file before previous file
- (all) Display failed conversions in the conversion tab
- (all) Add video conversions capabilities
- (all) add iPad to miro conversion list
- (Linux and Windows) use gtk volume slider
- (Linux) switch videos directory on linux to ~/Videos/Miro per freedesktop spec
- (Windows) upgrade windows build environment and dependencies
- support for basic and digest httpauth
- fixed support for http proxy
- conversions

* Bug fixes
- (all) No network access - possibly proxy
- (all) problem adding feeds on osx with proxy configured
- (all) volume slider requires a click after changing with scroll wheel
- (all) Playback should play new videos
- (all) downloads tab unsorts itself over time
- (all) databases should be platform-specific
- (all) Progress Bar for Slow Operations
- (all) feed mangling with non-ascii search within saved search feed.
- (all) upnp ports opened on the router are not closed when miro is closed
- (all) Better Torrent Naming
- (all) Better Handling of OperationalErrors during Database Upgrades
- (all) upgrade to libtorrent 0.14.10
- (all) clean up source tree
- (all) Save Fast Resume Data periodically
- (all) [patch] Sort playlists by name in the "Add to playlist" dialog
- (all) files don't delete
- (all) handle subtitle files that are encoded in non-utf-8 encodings
- (all) start downloader unicode errors
- (all) Search All - saved search icon incorrectly displayed
- (all) error with duplicate torrent download
- (all) handle current or duration as None
- (all) add youtorrent to sidebar
- (all) Update LegalTorrents default site to reflect new name: ClearBits
- (all) direct youtorrent download, doesn't initiate .torrent download
- (all) update audio bitrate for all device conversions
- (all) Conversions cancelled message on shutdown
- (all) Add extension to output filename to prevent same file name for conversions
- (all) Delete tempfiles from unittests
- (all) download tab disappears when items are seeding or paused
- (all) new video counter for folders not updated on feeds update
- (all) display nothing instead of 'none' when no description available
- (all) Download tab disappears when external download fails
- (all) crash when download finishes during playback
- (all) youtube video scraping fails
- (all) file not found error for video with spaces in the title.
- (all) Seeking during pause will implicitly issue playback
- (all) truncate_old_items AttributeError: 'RSSFeedImpl' object has no attribute 'old_items'
- (all) played item doesn't restart at displayed resume time if 10 secs or less
- (all) wrap text on no-results page
- (all) downloading a democracy now torrent causes the item name to change
- (all) miro should respect 503 http error and Retry-After header.
- (all) Color coding state in playlist listview is confusing
- (all) Color coded circle icons can get out of sync with status column
- (all) some converted files are not moved from tmp dir to Converted dir
- (all) external download error dialog needs work
- (all) Crash when adding torrent feeds
- (all) opml import ignore autodownload setting in opml file
- (all) "miro/dl_daemon/download.pyo", line 514, in retry_download AttributeError: 'BTDownloader' object has no attribute 'start_new_download'
- (all) download error handling is different
- (all) double subtitle tracks and display
- (all) Download tab remains when download in retry mode cancelled.
- (all) os x log doesn't display libtorrent version correctly
- (all) Download tab doesn't appear / disappear based on seeding item
- (all) crash report with db are not submitted.
- (all) handle case where media download has 0 bytes
- (all) retry mode jumps to 24 hours
- (all) paused downloads startover on resume
- (all) Previously failed URLs do not use a working URL if they've been fixed/updated
- (all) don't show 'From Local Files'
- (all) converted items disappear and are hard to find
- (all) keep finished conversions in the conversion tab until user 'clears' them
- (all) Save Backup of databases when upgrades fail
- (all) calc_retry_time TypeError: can't compare datetime.datetime to int
- (all) crash reporting doesn't work
- (all) label conversion targets as audio or video
- (all) miro doesn't see descriptions in some feeds
- (all) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'NOPROXY'
- (all) in handle_network_error AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ProxyAuthenticationError'
- (all) error deleting feed with invalid url
- (all) password protected feeds prompt with each update
- (all) convert flv file to mp3 format results in unplayable file
- (all) failed tests: set_filename calls getmtime which errors out
- (all) converted filenames should be based on item titles
- (all) http downloads stay stuck in starting up
- (all) version number not displayed for windows installs
- (all) YouTube videos with diacritics in title will not download
- (all) remove downloading debug line from log files
- (all) save a backup of original database after successful upgrade
- (all) in _setup_proxy TypeError: strings are not supported for this option
- (all) Not able to remove feed after dragging to another section
- (all) Cancel on http auth dialog should cancel download attempt
- (all) immediate sort, seems like item disappears
- (all) Improve httpauth design
- (all) _ask_for_http_auth_callback AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'set'
- (all) don't log proxy username / password in Debug
- (all) in _setup_proxy_auth TypeError: invalid arguments to setopt
- (all) Download tab chicklets don't update for pause / resume
- (all) apple devs and ogg vorbis: Unable to find a suitable output format if no format extension
- (all) Youtube Videos matching query: <xyz> stale
- (all) language preference doesn't work for languages with region variants
- (all) update ipad settings
- (all) Frontend config change callbacks happen on the backend thread
- (Linux) unit test failures starting w/ 2010-03-27-nightly
- (Linux) crash when deleting an item
- (Linux) Mouse pointer is of type "hand" in main window when pop-out player is active
- (Linux) Bulk Conversions on ubuntu karmic hang
- (Linux) Conversion waits for answer if output already exists
- (Linux) linux doesn't recognize acodec aac, needs libfaac
- (Linux) converting to theora on karmic, appears to hang
- (Linux) ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
- (Linux) Crash when clicking on description link
- (Linux) linux unittest failure
- (Linux) persist .miro/Movies to gconf
- (Linux) Crash: ValidationError when Connection time-out
- (Linux) Edits to description for feed items aren't saved when feed updates.
- (Linux) print libtorrent version to the log
- (Linux) httpauth-fix related test failures
- (Linux) pycurl is requisite
- (Linux) Database upgrade to version 116 fails with UnicodeDecodeError
- (Linux) pywebkitgtk can not store cookies
- (Linux) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_total_playback_time'
- (Linux) NameError: global name 'curl_manager' is not defined
- (Linux) choose 1 consistent way to spell auto download, Autodownload, Auto-Download.
- (Linux) In progress conversion doesn't display: object has no attribute 'get_eta'
- (Linux) pause/go while downloading kicks up AttributeError: 'TransferStats' object has no attribute 'status_code'
- (Linux) Miro should fail gracefully if it's accidentally run on a system without a working display
- (Linux) password protected feeds prompt for each download
- (Linux) same item title overwrites previous conversion
- (Linux) fail gracefully with glib.GError
- (Linux) error overwriting existing converted file
- (Linux) (Locale) Unit conversion exceptions
- (Linux and Windows) Put fullscreen button next to pop-out for windows hover controls
- (Linux and Windows) Handle moving position slider when get_total_playback_time() returns None
- (Linux and Windows) no prompt for password protected feeds or items
- (OS X) Update OS X test setup code
- (OS X) miro crashes on launch on MacOSX10.4.11(japanese)--bad locale handling code
- (OS X) Miro doesn't launch after first time closing, no error MSGs
- (OS X) slow shutdowns on os x
- (OS X) New Search feed selecting wrong feed for search creation
- (OS X) Search: Chinese language support - wrong characters displayed
- (OS X) os x nightly 2010-16-04 fails to launch
- (OS X) Miro hang while downloading
- (OS X) valueError: not allowed to raise the maximum limit
- (OS X) os x nightly build: ImportError: No module named os
- (OS X) in-progress conversion files displayed in the Library
- (OS X) conversion duplicated in Conversion tab when changed state from pending
- (OS X) os x nightly revision unknown
- (OS X) Miro becomes wedged when invoking Present video 1/2 size/full size/2x size via shortcut while main window minimized
- (OS X) In popout mode, resizing doesn't focus playback window
- (OS X) Clicking Subtitle button on playing MKV file: TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable
- (OS X) error when deleting feed.
- (OS X) crash on start_downloader_daemon: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'f' referenced before assignment
- (OS X) Miro continuous playback doesn't obey minimize/hide
- (OS X) Clicking on icon when all windows closed does not re-open window
- (OS X) Changing the volume from the OS X overlay palette does not save its value.
- (OS X) Miro hid ALL of the Library tabs
- (OS X) Unhandled exception with SUNoFeedURL
- (OS X) dtv-downloader-log file is missing on os x.
- (OS X) problem downloading files with a,ö,a (or other exotic characters)
- (OS X) os x playback broken
- (OS X) ui freeze on os x
- (OS X) Site don't interact well with Miro after leave site tab and return
- (OS X) Blatantly incorrect Japanese translation for "Services"
- (OS X) "Services" Menu doesn't do anything on Mac OS X
- (Windows) Proxy authentification does not work,
- (Windows) System tray right-click menu not displaying correctly (Vista x64)
- (Windows) Partially Off Screen, Can't be Moved, On Wrong Screen
- (Windows) Handle errors when reading from the database
- (Windows) Sorting by Name or by Feed in playlists is case-sensitive
- (Windows) fix appcast to use "windows" as well as "windows-xul"
- (Windows) miro 3.0.1 installer says miro 3.0
- (Windows) hook up conversions for windows
- (Windows) Error Starting Downloads
- (Windows) windows doesn't start: gtk.volumebutton has no get_popup
- (Windows) Windows: converting video, TypeError: an integer is required
- (Windows) WindowsError: [Error 13] Crash when performing bulk conversions
- (Windows) TypeError: find_http_auth() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
- (Windows) System tray menu doesn't close if you right-click once but then just click the desktop.
- (Windows) Download Rate mislabelled. KBps shown as kbps
- (Windows) libtorrent module couldn't be found
- (Windows) report database-related issues on startup better with useful options
- (Windows) srt files in BIG5 don't work on Windows
- (Windows) 2010-08-23-nightly build won't launch
- (Windows) Change bogondeflector location
- (Windows) http item auth goes into weird inprogress download when incorrect pw provided.
- (Windows) libtorrent binary on windows is compiled with wrong version of VC++
- (Windows) WindowsError: [Error 32] - performing bulk conversions
- (Windows) conversion description text gives from filename
- (Windows) Crash performing bulk conversions: mirovideoconversion.pyc", line 427, in _remove_file NameError: global name 'self' is not defined
- (Windows) conversion copyfile fails when item title has japanese characters
- (Windows) miro crashes when submitting crash report with db
- (Windows) Conversions fail if file path contains non-ascii characters
- (Windows) feed saved search display not updated automatically
- (Windows) converted file not moved to converted dir if quotes in item title
- (Windows) error encountered cancelling in-progress conversions
- (Windows) About menu doesn't open. - CREDITS file is missing.




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