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 [...]

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; [...]

Update
Miro 2.5.4-rc2 has now been posted.  Please take the time to download and check it out.
windows: http://pculture.org/nightlies/Miro-2.5.4-rc2.exe
os x: http://pculture.org/nightlies/Miro-2.5.4-rc2.dmg
source: http://pculture.org/nightlies/Miro-2.5.4-rc2.tar.gz

The developers have fixed a TON of BUGs for a 2.5.3 release and it is time to get some serious testing done on the posted release candidate build.
Changes include some fixes to some unknown errors, updates to vlc and libtorrent, changes for some os x 10.6 specific issues, and some other file naming problems on [...]

Few updates about what’s come and gone in miro testing lately.
Souce and Nightly Build testing:
Source repositories: a few week ago we migrated from using subversion to git.  If you’d like to keep track of the code checkins, you can view the changes here: https://git.participatoryculture.org/miro/log/?showmsg=1 .  It’s useful to see  the regular changes if you are [...]

Will posted release candidate 2 for miro 2.5 last night.

windows
os x
source

There were some final database changes to handle some potential issues when disks filled and a few tweaks to to vlc on windows to account for non-ascii named directories.
Please give us a hand with a final round of testing before we release.

The first release candidate build for Miro 2.5 has been posted:

windows
os x
source

I’ve been testing them on windows and os x, and they are looking very solid.  It would be great if a few more people could run some of the regression tests, as the lightening destroyed my machine that had linux and windows XP.  [...]

On Saturday at about the same time the lightening talks were going on at the Open Video Conference, I came home and had my own lightening dialog.
It struck about 400m from my house, tearing up the road.

It traveled through the ground and found the phone lines, blowing off the front cover and frying the wires [...]

We are about to start looking for more help testing the nightly builds for 2.5-svn and I wanted to give a few more details about things that have changed and areas to focus on with the testing.
The most obvious change is the reorganization of the Library.  Instead of Library, New and Individual Downloads, you will [...]

Recently I read the post woman and mozilla, concerning the contributions of women in the FLOSS world.  It set me thinking about  differences between contributions of men vs woman to miro testing.
From observations of the bug list and regression tests,  I’d say that we have a greater percentage of men who regularly download nightly builds [...]