Any thoughts on Miro?

Nigel Ridley nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Sat Dec 12 13:29:44 UTC 2009


Mark Greenwood wrote:
> 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

I just installed it from the repos and, like you said.....
sudo apt-get --purge remove miro

Nigel

> 
>> 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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