Any thoughts on Miro?

Mark Greenwood fatgerman at ntlworld.com
Sat Dec 12 12:50:49 UTC 2009


On Saturday 12 Dec 2009 06:33:57 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I came across an application called Miro (Open-source, non-profit video player and podcast 
> client) advertised on the Firefox website and wanted to know what you guys thought about it 
> before I installed it.
> http://www.getmiro.com/
> 
> Any thoughts - is it as good as it looks?

It looks awful, and it's that good. :)

Personally I can't see the point in it, and it sits there hogging my internet bandwidth for hours on end. Some people have too much time on their hands...

Mark

> 
> It's actually in the repos:
> 
> nigel at nigel:~$ apt-cache search miro
> democracyplayer - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator (transitional package)
> democracyplayer-data - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files (transitional package)
> miro - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
> miro-data - GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
> libmjpegtools-1.9 - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
> libmjpegtools-dev - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
> mjpegtools - MJPEG video capture/editting/playback MPEG encoding
> nigel at nigel:~$
> 
> Nigel
> 
> 




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