Miro 1.2.3rc2 adds support for high quality Youtube downloads

April 22, 2008 by elmargol

The newest version of Miro can now download high quality video from Youtube. Youtube uses the mp4 video format for this.
(Note: not every video is available in HQ most videos are not well encoded by the uploader)

You can get the nevest version for Ubuntu Hardy at https://launchpad.net/~teammiro/+archive/

HOWTO: Switch to Gonly mode using openwrt kamikaze

April 10, 2008 by elmargol

My wireless lan did not work corretly using the iwl3945 driver. Setting my accesspoint to G mode did fix the isssues.

Install wl: ipkg install wl
open the config file:
vi /lib/wifi/broadcom.sh
search for killall:
/killall
add this line (after the killall line): wl gmode GOnly

Andy Ross of OK Go discusses Miro and open media

April 3, 2008 by elmargol