Miro

Cory Doctorow: “There’s a word for all the stuff we do with creative works — all the conversing, retelling, singing, acting out, drawing, and thinking: we call it culture.” Link

We are getting into the final stages of building Miro 2.0. There’s still a ways to go, we have a lot of bug fixing and tweaking ahead of us. But most of the text in the app is finalized and it’s a great time to help us translate the interface so that we’ll [...]

Brightcove, a large provider of white label video hosting, recently announced the discontinuation of their free video hosting service. They’ll be deleting all videos/accounts that haven’t upgraded to paid hosting, before December 17th. A large number ... [More] of videos will simply disappear from the web. This move may make business sense, especially during an economic downturn, but [...] [Less]

Robbt, one of our awesome volunteer moderators, recently set up and seeded a Linux & Free Software category for the Miro Guide. There are many channels that still haven’t been added — we limit each channel to three categories, and I think many had already hit that mark. So if you’re a channel manager and [...]

Just yesterday, the folks at the Xiph Foundation announced the release of Theora 1.0! This is following some big improvements in the Theora encoder, and Mozilla’s decision to ship the next version of Firefox with native support for Theora. All of this is great news, because an open and royalty free codec is very important to [...]

On Thursday, November 13th, I’ll be at NewTeeVee Live, a conference focused on the fast evolving world of online TV. I went last year and not only had a fantastic time, but met some great people who Miro has since partnered with. If you work in this space and don’t already have a ticket, I [...]

Happy Halloween everybody. To celebrate, we launched a partnership today with OpenCandy, a new software recommendation tool focused on free and open source software. We’re using OpenCandy to offer some great open-source consumer applications to ... [More] people when they install Miro. We think this is a great idea for driving adoption of free software, and we’re [...] [Less]

We’re very excited to announce a big new Miro project, that we’ll tackle with support from the Knight Foundation, to make local video more accessible than ever. The project is called Miro Local TV, and it will be an open source tool that will let anyone build a local video community in their city and town, [...]

Redhat has recently been touting the hardiness of open source software during times of economic crisis. In light of our current slowdown, I figured a post about connecting your computer to your TV would be fun. You can use Miro and/or a lot of other free software to make finding and watching media from your [...]

YouTube made a few technical changes (a day or two ago) that affect Miro’s ability to access the videos. Our developers are working on a fix right now — we’ll keep you updated. Update: We should have a fix for the YouTube issue with version 1.2.8 ... [More] (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux source): http://www.getmiro.com/download/ We’ll let you folks [...] [Less]