Just curious, what OS are you running on? I've actually found Miro to be very responsive not only on my intel based macbook, but also on my G4 / 667mhz tibook. It's like 7 years old. It plays videos every bit as good as VLC or QT.
I do have some issue btw that there's NO throttling on downloads besides bittorrent. It tends to suck up every available bit of bandwidth. That I find as a major problem and it can make websites, especially videoblogs pretty much un browseable on the side. It does not play nicely on the network. I aslo have some issues with the complexity of the interface, there's some things that could be simplified tremendously. I see they've improved a few of these in fact. This mostly stems from the playlists being composed in HTML/CSS. They just don't behave as they should when selecting and dragging around multiple videos. My only advice to them would be simplify, simplify, simplify and polish polish polish on the UI. Other than that I find it a very solid app. Between the visual clutter and the downloads hogging the network I could see this being seen as heavy, but not to the point of bloatware. I've also run it on ubuntu where it also works great on my pentium based desktop machine. In fact, I hope they bring some of their expertise to a browser plugin for video soon. The fact that there's no QT plugin alternative for firefox on ubuntu I consider to be one of ubuntu's biggest weaknesses. I have not used Miro on windows. I suspect their could be some problems with their use of windows QT. I have heard complaints about apple's itunes and QT technology being bloated and unstable on windows, but I thought they had resolved many of these issues on recent releases. -Mike mefeedia.com mmeiser.com/blog evilvlog.com On 11/2/07, Patrick Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone: > > On 10/31/07, Mike Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > New update of Miro out. > > [snip....] > > Sorry, but as long as Miro remains the same piece of BLOATWARE CRAPOLA > as its predecessr (Democracy Player), it'll NEVER be on my system (I > don't like software OF ANY KIND that has to load its own website > BEFORE it does anything else, thus making it non-responsive in the > eyes of Windows). > > Just my blunt opinion.... > > Cheers :D > > -- > Pat Cook > Denver, Colorado > PODCASTS - > AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - > http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - > http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 > PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ > PAT'S HEALTH & MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - > http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ > YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ > THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow > THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - > http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - > http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
