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Comment windows bug fixed today (Score 2) 201

by ravrore on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:51PM (#36231726) Attached to: Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes

The Miro folks say that the Windows bug described in the 'rough edges' link above has been fixed and the update will be released today.

Comment Re:"Open Media" (Score 1) 201

by ravrore on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:46PM (#36231652) Attached to: Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes

Exactly. Android is going to be 50% of smartphones soon and there's no iTunes equivalent for it, until Miro. Plus Miro works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Comment Re:"Open Media" (Score 2) 201

by ravrore on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:45PM (#36231640) Attached to: Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes

Miro has Amazon MP3 store built in, so it has the same content access as iTunes and is has things like Android syncing, video conversion, and local network file transferring that iTunes doesn't do.

Submission + - Miro 4 aims to show open can be as good as closed (getmiro.com)

Submitted by ravrore on Monday May 23, 2011 @10:42PM

ravrore writes: Miro 4 was released today, a major update to the popular multi-patform FOSS video player. The new version adds music support, local network stream and transfer, music purchasing, and Android syncing. Miro is positioning itself as the open iTunes for Android users. "We believe the open media world can be just as integrated and usable as the closed, top-down, DRM'ed systems of companies like Apple. And we want to prove it," says Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of Participatory Culture Foundation, which creates Miro.

Submission + - Wikipedia's Assault on Patent Encumbered Codecs (videoonwikipedia.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign today called Let's Get Video on Wikipedia asking people to create and post videos to Wikipedia articles (good, encyclopedia style videos only!). Because all video must be in patent-free codecs (theora for now), this will make Wikipedia by far the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and open video experience. The campaign seeks to "strike a blow for freedom" against a wave of h.264 adoption in otherwise open html5 video implementations.

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