Miro is a free and open-source application. With Miro, you can watch free internet video channels and play any video file. The latest version of Miro is 0.9.9.9. This tutorial shows how you can install it on Ubuntu.
1. Edit your sources.list file with this command:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Add the following repository:
For Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy:
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy/
For Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty:
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu feisty/
For Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper:
deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu dapper/
3. Save sources.list file.
4. Update the sources:
sudo apt-get update
5. Install Miro, you need to execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install miro
Now you can launch Miro by clicking Applications → Sound & Video → Miro.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Dondad // Nov 3, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Tried, but the repo as listed is flagged as malformed in sources.list and It cannot be added through the gui either. Running Gutsy will all current updates.
2 Dondad // Nov 3, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Figured it out. Got it installed, but when I open it, it starts out “loading miro guide” then closes. Here is the output when started from the terminal
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus_bindings.py:1: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon.
Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).
If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
.
from dbus.dbus_bindings import *
INFO Starting up Miro
INFO Version: 0.9.8.1
INFO Revision: unknown
INFO Loading preferences…
INFO Starting event loop thread
INFO Restoring database…
INFO Connecting to /home/family/.miro/sqlitedb
INFO Recomputing filters…
INFO Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed
INFO Spawning global feed dtv:singleFeed
INFO Spawning global feed dtv:search
INFO Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads
INFO Creating channel tab order
INFO Creating playlist tab order
INFO Spawning Miro Guide…
(u’News and Tech’, [u’http://jetset.blip.tv/?skin=rss’, u’http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/quicktime-large’, u’http://www.democracynow.org/podcast-video.xml’, u’http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/rss.xml’, u’http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-NN-NETCAST-M4V.xml’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video’])
INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon ****
(u’Entertainment’, [u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/Terravideos’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/AskANinja’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/Theburg/’, u’http://feeds.theonion.com/OnionNewsNetwork’])
(u’High-Def’, [u’http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/hd_podcast.xml’, u’http://www.telemusicvision.com/videos/rss.php’, u’http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/shows/25/podcast/hd’, u’http://www.kqed.org/.pod/questvideo’])
INFO Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed
INFO Spawning auto downloader…
INFO Displaying main frame…
WARNING Menu item action “CheckVersion” not implemented
WARNING Menu item action “RenameVideo” not implemented
WARNING Menu item action “FastForward” not implemented
WARNING Menu item action “Rewind” not implemented
WARNING Menu item action “UpVolume” not implemented
WARNING Menu item action “DownVolume” not implemented
WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created
WARNING Display updated before video display was created
INFO Creating video display…
alsa
oss
pulseaudio
none
file
INFO loaded renderer ‘xinerenderer’
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpSplkkC.html
TIMING Icon clear: 0.340
INFO Finished startup sequence
TIMING idle (Finishing startup) too slow (1.292 secs)
INFO *** Daemon ready ***
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpEUdEo3.html
INFO got https://www.miroguide.com/
TIMING feed update for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/hd_podcast.xml too slow (0.140 secs)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
/usr/bin/python2.5: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor
WARNING downloader: connection closed — quitting
INFO Shutting down downloaders…
family@family-desktop:~$
3 Alexis Bellido // Nov 12, 2007 at 7:46 am
I also had the problem of Miro closing just after launch and followed the advice in Ubuntu Forums to fix it.
Cheers!
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