Miro Testing

* Updated links for Miro 3.0 - Release Candidate 3

Miro 3.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available on the nightly builds page for testing:

• windows,
• mac,
• source.

Here’s a quick rundown of some of the new features and how they work.

Subtitles

Whether embedded or external, subtitles display be enabled and disabled during playback. The feature is implemented for all operating systems and more technical details are available.

To display embedded or sidecar subtitle files:

1. Start playback on a video file.
2. Click the Playback -> Subtitles menu, or the Subtitles icon on the playbar.
3. Available languages or tracks are displayed for selection.
4. Choose the file and subtitles will display.

To choose a subtitle file from a location on your system:

1. Start playback on a video file.
2. Click the Playback -> Subtitles menu, or the Subtitles icon on the playbar.
3. Choose the Select a Subtitles Files… option and browse to the subtitle file.
4. While you are looking for the file, playback will pause, and resume when the selection is made.

There is also a global preference available to automatically display or disable subtitle files.

Edit Cataloged Items

Users are now provided with greater control over how items are displayed in the Library. This is useful to change titles, provide better descriptions or change the audio or video classification. To edit an item:

1. Select the item
2. From the File (Video) menu, select Edit Item, or right-click and select Edit Item from the context menu.
3. In the Edit item dialog, you can modify title, description, and whether it should be treated as video, audio or other for playback purposes.
4. The full path to the item on your system is displayed in the dialog.
5. Lastly, files can be dragged and dropped between the Video, Audio and Other sections of the library. This will automatically change it’s setting for playback purposes.

Play file with an external player

This long requested feature, useful for advanced users and people who prefer an additional playback option was implemented by a contributor. Special thanks go to Jason Woofenden. To use an external player:

1. Right-click on an item, and select Play Externally from the context menu.
2. The item will be opened with the system default player for that file type.

There is also a global preference available under the Playback settings to always use an external player.

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If so, you will most certainly want to take a look at Release Candidate 1 for Miro 3.0.  Miro-3.0-rc1 is now available for testing on Windows, Mac and Linux.

We have fixed about a zillion bugs and have implemented some great features such as:

• Support For Subtitles; embedded, co-located or browse toanywhere on your system.
• Item Metadata Editing; change the title, description, or audio / video specification.
• Play External Settings; global preference for all files, and a context menu for single items.

There are major speed improvements for navigating the UI, adding files to miro, and saving large search feeds.  We’ve improved shortcuts for audio playback, made some visual improvements and much, much, more.

This release also include updates to vlc (windows) and libtorrent (all os).

We are looking for help testing the release candidate, and hope you will download it and report back to us any of your findings.

To let us know how it goes, you can:

• comment here
• report a bug
• post in the forum
• email feedback@pculture.org

If you’d like to help more, please take a look at the regression tests or see the getting started guide.

As always, all help is greatly appreciated.

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