Miro (Democracy) player port is here...

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:12:15 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:51:05 -0600, Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 17, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> One of my friend beg me to create a port of Miro, so I did. ;-)  
>>> Hopeful I have covered all dependencies. There is only a known issue  
>>> is that for some reason it doesn't show thumbnail. Other than  
>>> thumbnail, it downloads, displays video and etc work great. Feel free  
>>> to report bug or whatever under this thread. Have fun.
>>>
>>>
>>> What is Miro?
>>> =========================================
>>> Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV
>>> video player.
>>>
>>> WWW: http://www.getmiro.com/
>>> =========================================
>>>
>>>
>>> Get port and install it.
>>> =========================================
>>> 	# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/shar/miro.shar
>>> 	# sh miro.shar
>>> 	# cd miro ; make install clean
>>> =========================================
>>>
>>> BTW: If you already have boost installed, you will have to uninstall  
>>> and install it with WITH_PYTHON or install devel/boost-python. I  
>>> already have requested to the maintainer of boost(-python) to see if  
>>> he can get boost and boost-python unconflict.
>>>
>>
>> what does it use for the flash videos?
>
> I am not sure exactly, I have linux-flash7 and nspluginwrapper  
> installed. I have tried to do YouTube and it seems work fine. Miro is  
> using gecko stuff. Maybe it just uses libxine or something else that I  
> am not sure. I can remove nspluginwrapper and test it to see if YouTube  
> still works.

I have done the 'nspluginwrapper -r  
~/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so' to remove flash from  
Firefox, and I still can download/play YouTube.

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mezz


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