Alternative to m.i.r.o

[fishtoprecords]

I love the idea of miro, and when it works, its great. But its clearly a work in progress. Every third show or so, it closes the Miro window when I click play. Every ten or so, it blows away X-Windows completely.(Not the whole OS, just X).

Are there other programs that are similar to Miro, perhaps a bit more robust?

Thanks
Pat

I'm running 8.04.

[ex.hav0k]

well, i looked at miro and i seem to remember, atleast about a year ago when i used to use linux, there was a program that was very similar and worked amazingly. it ran off bit-torrent, so you could add any show you wanted to off torrent sites. i got a note from nbc/universal for having House on there, so i ended up uninstalling it because there was no way to install a safepeer/ipblocker. but it was a great program. i haven't used miro yet, but it looks like it might be the same thing. if anyone can remember the name of the program im thinking of, it was big in 06 if anyone remembers.

[Thelasko]

there was a program that was very similar and worked amazingly.
Do you mean Democracy? Democracy became Miro a while back.

I find Miro buggy too. My biggest complaint is that the config files are not compatible from version to version.

[dohko_xar]

Miro is so damn buggy... I click the play button and it crashes.. it's unusable.

Right now I'm trying to learn enough bash script to be able to pull my podcasts into a folder and then watch them with whatever media player.. Miro is so crappy.

[Kevbert]

You could try zattoo (http://zattoo.com) if it works in your country.

[markbuntu]

Miro works great for me, no problems at all since I changed the video renderer option to gstreamer from xine. Before that it gave me a bunch of unpredictable problems up to and including system crash.

[Thelasko]

I started using Hulu. All is good now.

[darkazurka]

I know miro is buggy, and it doesn't do everything I tell it to do, but it's open source and I won't depart from it if the alternative is closed source.

The above shows why I'm still using the Ubuntu flavor of Gnu/linux.