Miro Video Converter 2.0 adds support for open WebM (vp8) video format

By Martin Kaba • May 21st, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Windows

Miro Video Converter, a useful open source tool for converting video to several kinds of formats – including Ogg Theora was released a two months together with overhauled Miro 3. Today the development team has released Miro Video Converter 2.0, with support for Google’s new open WebM (vp8) video format, so can quietly convert almost [...]

Miro 2.5 Final now Available for Download

By Martin Kaba • Jul 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video

After presenting here on this blog Miro 2.5 RC 1, and Miro 2.5 RC 2, the final release of the popular open source, cross-platform internet media browser and player, Miro is now available for download with its release notes that strangely have never been available with the Beta versions. The big thing in this major [...]

Miro 2.5 RC2 Released

By Martin Kaba • Jul 18th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

The final edition of Miro 2.5 will soon hit the road, but for now grab the second release candidate of Miro 2.5. Very few changes seem to have been made to this second release candidate apart a few tweaks on the database and on VLC rendering code used on Miro for Windows. This will be [...]

Get your Hands on Miro 2.5 RC1

By Martin Kaba • Jul 9th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video, Windows

The Miro team has released the first Release Candidate of Miro version 2.5. There is not much information on what Miro 2.5 is supposed to be, but it seem much emphasis has been made to make Miro faster to launch and easier to hack on. This open source, free HD video player has packages of [...]

Miro the free and Open Source alternative to Joost

By Martin Kaba • Nov 19th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open Source Advocacy

The version 1.0 of the application formerly know as Democracy player has been released. The new-born, bug fixed Miro is an improved open source video player that sets as its major objective – be better to Joost. Miro is DRM-free and friendly to all content creators. It connects to all the popular video sharing sites [...]