New Features available with Miro 3.0
Posted by Janet
* 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:
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:
- Start playback on a video file.
- Click the Playback -> Subtitles menu, or the Subtitles icon on the playbar.
- Available languages or tracks are displayed for selection.
- Choose the file and subtitles will display.
To choose a subtitle file from a location on your system:
- Start playback on a video file.
- Click the Playback -> Subtitles menu, or the Subtitles icon on the playbar.
- Choose the Select a Subtitles Files… option and browse to the subtitle file.
- 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:
- Select the item
- From the File (Video) menu, select Edit Item, or right-click and select Edit Item from the context menu.
- In the Edit item dialog, you can modify title, description, and whether it should be treated as video, audio or other for playback purposes.
- The full path to the item on your system is displayed in the dialog.
- 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:
- Right-click on an item, and select Play Externally from the context menu.
- 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.
February 15th, 2010 at 11:06 am
[...] New features that are available Miro 3.0 include: displaying subtitles, editing cataloged items, and playing files in an external player. Here is a post about how to use these new features in Miro 3.0. [...]
February 18th, 2010 at 2:02 am
[...] New features that are available Miro 3.0 include: displaying subtitles, editing cataloged items, and playing files in an external player. Here is a post about how to use these new features in Miro 3.0. [...]
February 19th, 2010 at 1:05 am
Hello!
Im loving what you guys are doing, but I was wondering if there is a way of making the Subtitles look better, o use a better Font…
Like if you are on windows, arial, mac, helvetica and linux, san serif.
Im using Ubuntu 9.10, and even thou I love that now there is a way to play the video externally, I want to play it within the Miro Player. But Subtitles just look awfull.
Any way to make them look better, thanks!
February 19th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
[...] the time to download, and let us know how it goes. Here’s a description of some of the new features in 3.0, and the draft release [...]
February 21st, 2010 at 2:02 am
[...] the time to download, and let us know how it goes. Here’s a description of some of the new features in 3.0, and the draft release [...]