It's been announced at quite a few places, so you probably already heard about it: Miro 2.0, the new major release of the cross-platform Internet RSS audio/video aggregator and player has been released.
Miro is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, the new release on Linux now features a "native" GTK+ widgets UI (instead of the Mozilla-based HTML widgets of earlier versions) and supports both a xine, as well as gstreamer renderer (for audio and video).
I won't even attempt to list all the improvements and new features, please check the release notes and the feature list for details. Overall more than 670 issues have been fixed since the last 1.2.x series release.
You can also watch this video (Ogg Theora, 10 MB) for a short introduction in Miro 2.0.
Together with the software release, the getmiro.com website, as well as the online Miro Guide have been competely rewritten and are a lot more usable and better-looking than before.
Finally, I have uploaded a new Miro 2.0 Debian package to unstable yesterday, by now it should be available from most mirrors. For Debian we're defaulting to xine at the moment, but please consult README.Debian if you want to switch to the gstreamer backend.
Please test the new release extensively so the few remaining issues (if any) can be ironed out soon...
Comments
Crash on startup
Hi,
Thanks for the quick packaging. But it seems to have a problem on startup. I have Miro crashing with this :
location: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxpcom.so before 3 INFO Starting up Miro INFO OS: Linux INFO Version: 2.0 INFO Revision: https://svn.participatoryculture.org/svn/dtv/tags/Miro-2.0/tv/resources - 9177 INFO Builder: uwe@greenwood INFO Build Time: 1234316050.51 INFO Starting event loop thread INFO Restoring database... INFO Connecting to /home/seagle/.miro/sqlitedb WARNING Unknown startup error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/miro/startup.py", line 87, in wrapped func(*args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/miro/startup.py", line 174, in finalizeStartup setupTabs() File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/miro/startup.py", line 203, in setupTabs tabs.reloadStaticTabs() File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/miro/tabs.py", line 357, in reloadStaticTabs document = parse(resources.path('statictabs.xml')) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse fp = open(file, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/miro/resources/statictabs.xml' INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon **** INFO *** Daemon ready *** INFO Shutting down Downloader... INFO Shutting down downloaders... INFO Closing Database... INFO Shutting down event loop INFO Shutting down frontend INFO Shutdown complete INFO Saving preferences... INFO Shutting down icon cache updates INFO Shutting down movie data updates INFO Done shutting down. INFO Remaining threads are: INFO <_MainThread(MainThread, started)>ANd I can confirm that this file is not part of any packages.
Miro problem
Please post bug reports in the upstream and/or Debian BTS.
Are you sure you run Debian unstable and the upgrade to miro 2.0 went fine? Were there errors during upgrade? The log messages are strange, as there's no "statictabs.xml" string in any of the miro files, neither in miro, nor in miro-data. Did only one of the two packages upgrade OK, and the other not? Please try "apt-get update && apt-get install miro miro-data" in a few hours or so, maybe it was a mirror problem?
Uwe.
Right, it was a problem in
Right, it was a problem in the version on the repo. An upgrade of miro and democracyplayer packages fix the problem. Sorry for the noise.
Also it's strange to have both (miro and democracyplayer) names in binaries, there is a reason for keeping both ?
Also another thanks for the packages, it's nice to have the deb the same day of the announce of the upstream project :)
great!
Yesterday I googled for debian packages for miro 2, didn't found one and installed miro locally. I should have waited...
Ill try the debian packages in the evening.
THX for packing miro 2 so fast!