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Tue, 13 Nov 2007

Miro 1.0 released!

I work for Participatory Culture Foundation as a developer on the Miro internet video player.

Today we released Miro 1.0. For most of the projects I've worked on, the 1.0 mark is exciting to reach, but also somewhat of a downer because it really requires you to hone the list of all possible things you could do down to a small finite list. Inevitably, there are things people will want to do that 1.0 doesn't do. Still, it's a huge milestone for the project. We're already working on post-1.0 development and making changes to decisions that didn't turn out as well as we had hoped.

A good portion of the work we do is in Python with lots of interaction between Python and libraries written in C and C++. For example, we use a lot of Pyrex to speed up critical sections.

Miro is a great product to continue to push open standards for video distribution and consumption on the Internet. I regularly watch GoogleEDU videos through Miro and I'm hoping other Python-related channels will be available as well. At some point, I'd like to create my own Python-videos channel and aggregate good Python-related video content. There's a lot of screencasts and tutorials out there....

[ tags: dev, miro, python, work | category: /dev/python | Permalink | 3 comments ]
Posted by Bill Mill on Tue Nov 13 18:32:41 2007
Congrats! it looks cool.


Posted by Steve Holden on Tue Nov 13 20:22:22 2007
Many congratulations on this milestone. I am looking forward to trying Miro, since I really dislike the way that commercials intrude through Real Player and the DRM aspects of Windows Media Player.

2 MB to go ...


Posted by Ryan on Wed Nov 14 01:54:51 2007
congratulations! i really admire PCF, and miro is a ton of fun. i can't wait to see the reaction!


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