Comments on: Miro - Internet TV for your Ubuntu Desktop

By: Keheliya

Keheliya — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:39:35 +0000

I installed miro and using it heavily for news,entertainment and education in the internet.
Here I have posted a collection of vodcasts I enjoyed in Miro

By: Vgtech

Vgtech — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:44:31 +0000

This is great!

By: malangaman

malangaman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:23:19 +0000

Using the above instructions somehow I corrupted something and had to re-install Hardy but once I re-installed Hardy I was able to install Miro through synaptic package manager easily in Hardy 8.04.1(system ->administration -> synaptic package manager. Search for Miro). I am very happy with it so far.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:34:22 +0000

I first used Miro just after the name change (used to be democracy player), around version .9 or so. I really loved it at the time, but it just hasn’t been stable for me since around version 1.0. I don’t know why it worked so well for me before, but I keep trying every couple months and it just keeps crashing on me. I really love the idea (and would love Miro, and point everybody at know in its direction, if it was stable), but it’s just not usable.

By: mizar

mizar — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:56:57 +0000

The program is fair, but for me is too buggy. I tried various versions coming with ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 and still the same bugs, still the video integration with movie player is not working well (frequent freezes).

Downloading is also a bad idea, and i haven’t found a way to stream the content. I found my disk full in few days, and without knowing the reason. The miro was downloading automatically new content of channels. Fortunately the latest version seems to have reduced this feature.

By: LinuxNtwrkng

LinuxNtwrkng — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:04:20 +0000

The menu system has to be restarted for it to appear in your applications menu. Either restart the computer, restart gdm, or type this into a terminal:

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

After that you’ll see the entry the author promised

By: Mojah

Mojah — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:25:51 +0000

Vasudevan; you can go to: “Applications > Accessories > Terminal” and type “miro” (without quotes) to launch it.

It didn’t appear in Sound & Video for me either, strangely enough.

By: Vasudevan

Vasudevan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:17:26 +0000

I did everything as instructed. But I do not see MIRO TV when I click on sound & video.

By: Frank Sayre

Frank Sayre — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:09:05 +0000

Devnull: That’s interesting. I remember having some of the same problems in the past, and abandoning the program because of them. Under Ubuntu 8.04, however, things have worked allot better. My only problems are:

1. Occasionally a video will not download. Instead Miro will download a couple KB non-video file and will show up as downloaded. My theory is that this is probably an rss error.
2. Occasional lag when switching between channels and/or when starting a video
3. Sometimes it seems that I need to restart Miro in order to get a full update of all the channels.

These problems are annoying, but hardly deal breakers. What version are you using?

By: devnull

devnull — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:12:48 +0000

i really like the idea. so i installed it and tried it out on dapper drake.

1. the interface could be improved a lot. one mouse move and all of a sudden you are in a different menu and lost your video playback.

2. playback with gstreamer was very poor.

3. playback with xine kept on crashing miro all together.

4. even after installing the required plugins for flash playback it couldt recognise the formats.

5. so much great media out there on the internet to explore, so i will revisit this at some point, but by now.. it just didnt work..

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Miro once worked fine with me but after some upgrade it became unusable. Recently I gve it a try again but it still breaks down, items become non-clickable and playback for video doesn’t work even though I played around ith the settings. It’s a great program but at this point for me only partly usable.

Any suggestions how to use it are very welcome
ANdreas

By: Frank Sayre

Frank Sayre — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:56:37 +0000

I absolutely love Miro. Combined with an RSS torrent service (I don’t want to link to a specific site here, so just google “rss torrent tv” or something similar) I’ve found I rarely even watch regular cable anymore.