Miro – Internet TV for your Ubuntu Desktop

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Miro is a free application for channels of internet video (also known as ‘video podcasts and video rss). Miro is designed to be easy to use and to give you an elegant fullscreen viewing experience.

There are thousands of free internet video channels that you can watch. You'll be able to download all the videos that each channel offers and when new ones are released, Miro will grab them automatically.

Unlike tiny videos on websites like YouTube, Miro videos are usually very high quality and look great when watched full screen. Since Miro downloads videos completely before you watch, your videos will never skip or stutter while they are playing.

Install miro in Ubuntu hardy

You need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file using the following command

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line save and exit

For Hardy Users (amd64 and i386)

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu hardy/

For Gutsy Users (amd64 and i386)

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy/

Update the source list using the following comamnd

sudo apt-get update

or

Add the new repository. Open System->Administration->Software Sources->Third-Party Software. Click the Add button and paste in this repository:

For Hardy Users (amd64 and i386)

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu hardy/

For Gutsy Users (amd64 and i386)

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy/

Close Software Sources, and when prompted, choose to reload the repositories.

Install miro using the following command

sudo aptitude install miro

This will install all the required packages.

Using Miro

You need to open miro from Applications--->Sound & video--->Miro Internet TV

If you want to run miro when your computer starts up select here

select option if you want miro to look for video files on your computer

Once it opens you should be able to see similar to the following screen

To add new channel, go to Channels->Add channels

Miro Configuration

Go to Video->Options, this is where you can configure your Miro

Miro general options screen

You can set Miro to update your channel automatically by the hour or by the day

Limit the number of downloads and bittorrent settings

Here you can Select the folder that you want the videos to be stored

You can set the download files expiry date. Once the expiry date is due, Miro will automatically delete them from your hard disk. You can also limit the minimum free space that you want to use on your hard disk.

This is where you configure the playback option.The default video renderer is Xine. If you have any problems with default option Change the renderer to Gstreamer will solve the problem.

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