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Miro – Free open source video platform

by Steve on Nov.19, 2008, under Linux, Media, Windows

I use Windows and Linux interchagably so I like to choose open source toolsets that run on both platforms (I also find that Linux apps are generally also available on Mac OS X so that’s cool).

Miro is now my favourite video player (Xine has been deprecated in my A-List).

It supports all the video formats I use (Flash Video, AVI, H.264, Windows Media, Quicktime and MPEG), searches YouTube and Google Video, and allows downloads.

The only downside is the arms race between Miro and YouTube for enabling and disabling the download facility respectively but that is OK if you keep your version of Miro up to date.

You can get Miro here: Get Miro

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Fedora 10 – Cambridge release

by Steve on Nov.15, 2008, under Linux

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Fedora 9 was on a countdown and now Fedora 10 is almost ready.

The key features for me are:
* RPM 4.6 which is a major rewrite
* Faster graphical startup – including kernel graphical boot for flashless booting
* Rebase to Gnome 2.24
* Sbin sanity (at last!)
* AMQP Infrastructure – for high speed messaging

The full feature list is here

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