Miro

CDDB is the automated system that your computer uses to list track names, artist info, and cover art for CD’s that you pop into your drive. We want to do something similar for videos and subtitles. We’ve been toying with the following idea: you’re watching a video—you notice that Miro’s “subtitles” button is glowing. This means [...]

In addition to our summer PCF internship, we’re excited to announce an AmeriCorps*VISTA based position, which is centered around working with our Miro Local TV partners (namely, public broadcasting affiliates and community TV centers from around the ... [More] US). What: VISTA Position @ PCF When: Mid-July 2009 to July 2010 Where: Boston or NYC Wage: Living Stipend/Educational Award/Health Care See eligibility [...] [Less]

Great opportunity: summer PCF internship in New York City. You’ll be focusing primarily on content discovery, promotion, and outreach for Miro Guide. Also, we’ll need a lot of help coordinating the Open Video Conference, which is slated for June ... [More] 19-20. This internship is guaranteed to be dynamic, fast paced, challenging, and exciting. You must be: sharp, [...] [Less]

For those of you who haven’t seen Sita Sings the Blues yet, the film combines a modern breakup story with a fantastic musical retelling of the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu text. My favorite moments involved three shadow puppets, voiced by modern Indians, who retell the story based on their sometimes shaky memories of it. Watch [...]

The Open Video Conference website just launched! Open Video Conference June 19-20, 2009 New York City 40 Washington Square South @ NYU Law School We’re busy lining up amazing speakers, video and remix art, technical workshops, video workshops, film ... [More] screenings, and more (we’ll be announcing the lineup on an ongoing basis, stay tuned). We’ll make sure it’s engaging and [...] [Less]

A year ago, NRK, Norway’s public broadcaster, ran a highly successful distribution test, making high-resolution, full length, DRM-free programming available over Bittorrent. The experiment made their viewers very happy, and also saved NRK tens of ... [More] thousands of dollars in bandwidth costs. Yesterday, NRK continued on their highly innovative path and launched a Bittorrent tracker themselves. [...] [Less]

Last Saturday we passed the mark of one million users within a month! It makes me want to end every sentence with an exclamation point! But I won’t, because I care. The precise number as of yesterday, was 1,045,437 within the prior month, up from 277,272 the month before. This number came from Google [...]

We’ve just released Miro 2.0.2, which is translated into more languages and has many bug fixes. Full details are in the release notes. As always, you can download Miro here. We strive to make Miro accessible to as many people around the world as possible– if you speak a non-English language, we would love [...]

It’s annoying when you find an obviously non-HD channel marked as HD! That’s why we’ve got a flagging system — anyone can mark a channel so moderators can clean things up. What is HD? - Technically it means a resolution of 1080×720 or higher. We’re somewhat lenient, when it comes down to it, but will become stricter [...]

Attention: Miro Users, social, cultural and political media/RSS/BitTorrent fans, and all the historicists and ethnographers in us — we’re trying to gather stories on how Miro or video RSS feeds have been or are used in different ways, different ... [More] places, and different communities. It’s a truism that new media technologies, like RSS feeds, have and [...] [Less]