A major update to the Miro software has occurred this evening. The open sourced democratic TV software has upgraded to 1.2 which features many upgrades and bug fixes.
“We’ve just released a major update to Miro, version 1.2″ The announcement says, “This version adds lots of tweaks and bug fixes that make Miro smoother and slicker. It also lays the groundwork for some big improvements that are coming soon.”
The release notes (Google Cache for those who have as much trouble loading the page) contain the following improvements:
- Update to VLC 0.8.6e (which fixes a security flaw in vlc)
- Reorganization of frontend / backend (with cool implications for developers)
- Separate preferences to control manual and automatic simultaneous downloads.
There was also a number of bug fixes including:
- global preference to control autodownload settings
- A preference to set torrent upload ratios
- All revver searches return 0 results.
- DailyMotion? videos downloads give File Not Found errors
- Can’t Minimize to Task Bar via task bar on First run
- An extra directory level for downloaded torrents
Miro implements many things including the BitTorrent protocol which is known for efficiently distributing large files to users. Miro suggested that shows such as Democracy Now! could save thousands (in this case, $1000 a month) in bandwidth costs by implementing the BitTorrent technology.
There is high hopes for applications such as Miro given that the CBC has already announced it’s plans to distribute TV shows such as “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister” through BitTorrent. The hope is that this first step by a major TV broadcaster would open the floodgates to many North American broadcasters to follow suit.
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