Comments on: Miro Media Player Released; Billed as Open Joost Competitor

By: Miro Gets A Makeover | Kawink Blog

Miro Gets A Makeover | Kawink Blog — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:53:03 +0000

[...] an open-source HD video player we wrote about in 2007, launched Miro 2.0, an updated, re-designed, more powerful video [...]

By: Miro Gets A Makeover

Miro Gets A Makeover — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:12:50 +0000

[...] an open-source HD video player we wrote about in 2007, launched Miro 2.0, an updated, re-designed, more powerful video [...]

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:07:42 +0000

Miro has become one of my top entertainment pieces of software

http://www.spid...-tv-and-videos/

By: Download update, via speedlinks | Download Movies 101

Download update, via speedlinks | Download Movies 101 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:51:26 +0000

[...] high definition, full of content, and BitTorrent-enabled.” Mark Hendrickson calls it a “purer” player worth checking [...]

By: Doktor

Doktor — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:44:15 +0000

Excellent – gonna get it right away!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:21:39 +0000

Does it facilitate export to ipod?

By: Rupert

Rupert — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:18:43 +0000

Nobody is talking about Joost anymore anyway, they’re just going down and down: http://www.tren...en/trends/joost

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:40:35 +0000

Funny that nobody (author and comments) seems to care that the point of Joost is to provide an experience close to watching TV.

The real competitor of Miro would then be iTunes and its TV shows that you have to download.

I’m a lazy couch potato: I want my TV now. I don’t want to configure a bit torrent thing… even downloading a show on iTunes takes too long compared to the real thing (TV with or without tivo). But iTunes gives me 15 mins of my life back (no breaks).

So, not sure who is Miro’s target… geeks and teens don’t need them to get free pirated content. And posh 30 something have better thing to do than downloading and configuring it.

By: step

step — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:47:41 +0000

Problem with Joost is that if you’re outside of the US (Australia for me) none of the content works.

I’ve installed it and played around a few times, and all I can watch is content that I wouldn’t want to watch anyway.

At least with Miro, I can add my own content (rss feeds/torrents) or even just watch content I already have.

By: ronL

ronL — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:33:28 +0000

Seems that Joost has adopted too much of TV EPG interface which in my opinion is less aligned with what viewers equipped with a mouse and keyboard need.

I love Miro -pure functionality and Less noise and branded jazz

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:14:58 +0000

Chandra, BT seems to carry a lot of baggage, but I think we’ll see it more common as a transport, especially for larger files in the future with more legit content providers. I’ve used Miro with different protocols, and still for large files, BT works best. it’s not immediate or streaming, but you can schedule it to grab what you want, and in this model, BT works exclellent (sure beats waiting for Wednesday at 8:30, or whatever).

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:02:40 +0000

Miro is to media players what Firefox is to web browsers.

By: Nat

Nat — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:57:38 +0000

Comparing miro and joost when it comes to funding, yep, joost have a lot of $$$ but comparing functionality and open source code, i will bet on miro.

Nat
http://www.workersinc.com

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Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:57:21 +0000

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By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:54:04 +0000

Unless they’ve made vast improvements since I tried Miro, it should NOT be used for torrents. There’s no way to tweak any of its settings, and I had to delete Miro entirely in order to use my regular torrent program again.

By: Jesse Patel

Jesse Patel — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:53:01 +0000

I’m the Director of Business Development at Miro. I’m really excited to see us on TechCrunch.

Chandra: we’re not tied to BitTorrent. You can download any type of video from any type of source. We just support BitTorrent for people who want to use it. Most videos take just a minute or two to download, and in the not too distant future you’ll be able to start playing files immediately without waiting for them to download first.

By: Mefeedia Blog - What are you watching?

Mefeedia Blog - What are you watching? — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:51:22 +0000

The Open Social Media Platform…

I just read a Bebo press release about their “radical new vision” for Open Media. My question for them: Where have they been living the last two years? Online video has always been about being open – making it easy to publish, distribute, a…

By: ChandraB

ChandraB — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:55:24 +0000

If this is tied to BitTorrent’s content, I’m not sure how successful it will be. The few times I’ve tried to download a video it’s always been a couple of hours wait…unacceptable for casual use.

By: www.CARversation.com

www.CARversation.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:53:28 +0000

this is a really cool idea.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:35:19 +0000

Now projects like this show the true reality of the web startup business.

All those tens of millions of dollars beings thrown around by VC’s to startups is nothing more than friends and associates passing round money.

When you have a startup like miro develop something as good if not better than a $45 million dollars funded business like Joost its a joke.

Good luck to the Miro guys and girls.

A lesson to us all , you can bring down the big funded startup by developing something better from your garage or bedroom. Just waiting for a opensource startup to bring down google.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:30:14 +0000

Thanks Michel, fixed.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:29:10 +0000

Hell Yeah to Zadi Diaz and Epic-Fu!

By: Michel (ShipPal)

Michel (ShipPal) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:25:57 +0000

Your first link to Miro seems wrong, I land on a German site (www.miro.com).

Should be http://www.getmiro.com I guess.