Miro (video software)

Miro
DeveloperParticipatory Culture Foundation
Release21 February 2006; 20 years ago (2006-02-21)
Final release
6.0 Edit this on Wikidata / 5 April 2013; 13 years ago (5 April 2013)
Written inPython using GTK+
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
Size
  • Windows: 28.50 MB
  • macOS: 15.28 MB
  • Linux: 2.0 MB
  • Source code: 9.28 MB
Available in40 languages
TypeMedia player
Internet television
RSS+BitTorrent
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitegetmiro.com
Repositorygithub.com/pculture/miro

Miro (formerly named Democracy Player or DTV) was an audio, video player and Internet television application released by the Participatory Culture Foundation in 2006. Miro could automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels", manage them and play them. The application was designed to mesh with other Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) products such as Video Bomb, a social tagging video website, and the Channel Channel, a TV guide for Internet television.

Miro ran on Microsoft Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Linux and supported most common video file formats. It offered both audio and video, some in HD quality. The separate Miro Video Converter converted video formats. It was based on FFmpeg with profiles for the Theora (.ogv), .mp4, and WebM video formats supported by various devices.

Miro is free software, released under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later. The Participatory Culture Foundation no longer develops Miro. The last version (6.0) was released in 2013 and is no longer functioning correctly because of changes to the YouTube API.[citation needed]

History

The application was first launched in 2005 as Democracy Player (sometimes abbreviated as DTV) and later on as Miro in 2007. Video searching of web-based video archives was included in 2007, with access to various archives changing over time.

Miro is mostly written in Python, although it links to various libraries written in a variety of languages. Versions through 2.x had an almost entirely HTML/CSS based UI. Miro uses embedded WebKit in a GTK window on Unix/Linux (Mozilla Gecko/XUL until 3.0.2), WebKit in a Cocoa window on macOS, and Mozilla in a XUL window on Windows. Since version 3.0, the macOS port uses Cocoa and others use GTK. The embedded web browser is used only for web pages.

Reception

Miro received a favorable review from Josh Quittner who wrote "I have seen the future of television and it’s an application called Miro." In May 2011, Seth Rosenblatt of CNET wrote, "Providing one-stop shopping for all your video and audio management desires, open-source and cross-platform Miro deserves much of the praise that's been heaped upon it."

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 6.0". 5 April 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Openness: translations". Participatory Culture Foundation.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Reville (12 March 2007). "A Name Change". Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2007.; Nicholas Reville (17 July 2007). "Announcing Miro". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  4. ↑ Miro Video Converter
  5. ↑ "Miro Video Converter FFMPEG Conversion Matrix". Participatory Culture Foundation. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ "Get Miro download page". ...the software code, which is licensed under the GPL.
  7. ↑ "PCF Projects". Participatory Culture Foundation. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018. Although we are no longer developing Miro, we do continue to make the media player available.
  8. ↑ Quittner, Josh (13 November 2007). "The future of Internet TV". TechLand blog. CNN. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011. I have seen the future of television and it's an application called Miro.
  9. ↑ Rosenblatt, Seth (25 May 2011). "Miro – CNET Editors' review". CNET. Archived from the original on 18 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.