Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Hi everyone: On 11/4/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows XP on AMD Duron 1 Ghz. CPU 512 MB RAM. On this machine, I can't play ANYTHING in QT formats above 320 x 240 (Doing so just simply results in freeze frame playback). I have no experience with QT on XP. I would think it should work, but maybe QT is slow on windows XP. Only on my machine, which is (Admittedly) a boatanchor in DIRE need of replacing with something more.ErmShall we say modern? :D *Embarrased look* Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
On 11/4/07, Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On 11/2/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, what OS are you running on? I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like 7 years old. It plays videos every bit as good as VLC or QT. Windows XP on AMD Duron 1 Ghz. CPU 512 MB RAM. On this machine, I can't play ANYTHING in QT formats above 320 x 240 (Doing so just simply results in freeze frame playback). I have no experience with QT on XP. I would think it should work, but maybe QT is slow on windows XP. I do have some issue btw that there's NO throttling on downloads besides bittorrent. It tends to suck up every available bit of bandwidth. That I find as a major problem and it can make websites, especially videoblogs pretty much un browseable on the side. It does not play nicely on the network. That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Although I'm not sure it's a BitTorrent thing (I doubt it is). No it's specifically NOT a bittorent thing. Miro has throttling on bittorrent. They have no throttling on regular downloads. That is the problem. It can use up your whole download pipe. My only advice to them would be simplify, simplify, simplify and polish polish polish on the UI. Yeah, even if they have to open up the designing of skins to the open source community. It's way more than skins. It's not an aesthetic issue so much as usability. Between the visual clutter and the downloads hogging the network I could see this being seen as heavy, but not to the point of bloatware. Obviously you and I see things a little differently in this area. I have not used Miro on windows. I suspect their could be some problems with their use of windows QT. I have heard complaints about apple's itunes and QT technology being bloated and unstable on windows, but I thought they had resolved many of these issues on recent releases. QT iTunes are both a *bit* slow in loading, but beyond that they work for me without any problems. My guess is the slowness is something inherent in QT. Can you play any higher res videos in QT or iTunes then in Miro? -Mike Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Mike I'm not sure what you're talking about. The permalink button is revealed on each post by clicking the details link. It's been there for many months. Prior to that it was listed in each post without having to click the details link. And before that it didn't exist. In other words it's been many months (maybe nearly a year) since they're changed the location of the permalink button. - Verdi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Oh I take that back. They added the permalink button under the video when it plays - very nice. - Verdi On 11/4/07, Michael Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike I'm not sure what you're talking about. The permalink button is revealed on each post by clicking the details link. It's been there for many months. Prior to that it was listed in each post without having to click the details link. And before that it didn't exist. In other words it's been many months (maybe nearly a year) since they're changed the location of the permalink button. - Verdi -- http://michaelverdi.com http://freevlog.org http://nscape.tv
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Hi everyone: On 11/2/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, what OS are you running on? I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like 7 years old. It plays videos every bit as good as VLC or QT. Windows XP on AMD Duron 1 Ghz. CPU 512 MB RAM. On this machine, I can't play ANYTHING in QT formats above 320 x 240 (Doing so just simply results in freeze frame playback). I do have some issue btw that there's NO throttling on downloads besides bittorrent. It tends to suck up every available bit of bandwidth. That I find as a major problem and it can make websites, especially videoblogs pretty much un browseable on the side. It does not play nicely on the network. That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Although I'm not sure it's a BitTorrent thing (I doubt it is). My only advice to them would be simplify, simplify, simplify and polish polish polish on the UI. Yeah, even if they have to open up the designing of skins to the open source community. Between the visual clutter and the downloads hogging the network I could see this being seen as heavy, but not to the point of bloatware. Obviously you and I see things a little differently in this area. I have not used Miro on windows. I suspect their could be some problems with their use of windows QT. I have heard complaints about apple's itunes and QT technology being bloated and unstable on windows, but I thought they had resolved many of these issues on recent releases. QT iTunes are both a *bit* slow in loading, but beyond that they work for me without any problems. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Hi everyone: On 10/31/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New update of Miro out. [snip] Sorry, but as long as Miro remains the same piece of BLOATWARE CRAPOLA as its predecessr (Democracy Player), it'll NEVER be on my system (I don't like software OF ANY KIND that has to load its own website BEFORE it does anything else, thus making it non-responsive in the eyes of Windows). Just my blunt opinion Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924
Re: [videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
Just curious, what OS are you running on? I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like 7 years old. It plays videos every bit as good as VLC or QT. I do have some issue btw that there's NO throttling on downloads besides bittorrent. It tends to suck up every available bit of bandwidth. That I find as a major problem and it can make websites, especially videoblogs pretty much un browseable on the side. It does not play nicely on the network. I aslo have some issues with the complexity of the interface, there's some things that could be simplified tremendously. I see they've improved a few of these in fact. This mostly stems from the playlists being composed in HTML/CSS. They just don't behave as they should when selecting and dragging around multiple videos. My only advice to them would be simplify, simplify, simplify and polish polish polish on the UI. Other than that I find it a very solid app. Between the visual clutter and the downloads hogging the network I could see this being seen as heavy, but not to the point of bloatware. I've also run it on ubuntu where it also works great on my pentium based desktop machine. In fact, I hope they bring some of their expertise to a browser plugin for video soon. The fact that there's no QT plugin alternative for firefox on ubuntu I consider to be one of ubuntu's biggest weaknesses. I have not used Miro on windows. I suspect their could be some problems with their use of windows QT. I have heard complaints about apple's itunes and QT technology being bloated and unstable on windows, but I thought they had resolved many of these issues on recent releases. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com On 11/2/07, Patrick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: On 10/31/07, Mike Meiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New update of Miro out. [snip] Sorry, but as long as Miro remains the same piece of BLOATWARE CRAPOLA as its predecessr (Democracy Player), it'll NEVER be on my system (I don't like software OF ANY KIND that has to load its own website BEFORE it does anything else, thus making it non-responsive in the eyes of Windows). Just my blunt opinion Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] New update of miro with improved permalinks
New update of Miro out. Full details below. Happy to see the Ubuntu Gutsy support and the support for alternate channel guides (such as mefeedia). :) The ability to download individual videos without subscribing to a show is nice too. But what really makes me happy is they've brought the permalink out of hiding and brought it to the forefront in the playback interface. My previous workaround had been to click the star button, which took me to a form on the videobomb site from which I could then copy/paste the permalink into the web browser location bar. I'm guessing most people never discovered this workaround and hence never got from watching the video back to the original site. Having a direct link back to the originating website is a huge coup and should improve creator to fan contact in miro tremendously. It was always my most loved feature in Fireant. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog [image: miro logo] Major Update Available A major update to Miro is available. The new version is Miro Public Preview 3 (0.9.9.9). We strongly recommend that all users upgrade. New Features and Bug Fixes in Public Preview 3 (0.9.9.9) - On Windows, Miro will now generate thumbnails for any file that you download or add to your library. If a channel already provides a thumbnail for a video, Miro will show that instead. - Compatibility with OSX Leopard and Ubuntu Gutsy. - Miro now shows the channel icon instead of the generic video icon each video in a channel. - Miro will now remeber in-channel search terms, when you leave the channel or return from a playing video. - Miro now has the ability to add alternate channel guides and initiate individual video downloads with a 1-click button. - There are changes to the first time user experience, new users are now able to subscribe to some batches of channels on specific themes, like Sports, News, Food, etc. - At the request of video bloggers, we've put a 'permalink' below the video playback area. This makes it easy to go to that video post and leave a comment. - Some install functionality that makes our Co-Branded Miro service possible. - Lots of bug fixes and small tweaks. For help with any problems, please visit GetMiro.com/helphttp://www.getmiro.com/help andGetMiro.com/forum http://www.getmiro.com/forum/categories.php. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
