Software update: Miro 2.5.3

Miro has been updated to version 2.5.3 by the Participatory Culture Foundation. Miro is, in short, an open source cross-platform high-definition media streamer, downloader and player. The program contains a limited number of channels by default, but these can easily be expanded with your own sources. It is also possible to use the Miro Guide, which currently contains more than 5,000 channels. More information about the possibilities of this program are on this page to find and here is a short video showing Miro in action. Below is what has been improved in the program since version 2.5:

Changes and bug fixes in Miro 2.5.3:

• (all) [patch included] Miro misinterprets HTTP headers with line breaks (Thank you Jason Woofenden!)
• (Windows) internal error on launch – KeyError?: ‘USERNAME’
• (Windows) ile “os.pyc”, line 166, in makedirs WindowsError?: [Error 2] The system cannot find the path specified: u’L:’
• (GTK/X11) (r9864) Audio playback doesn’t stop at end (xine)
• (all) URL with colon fails to download
• (all) startup error from _convert_repr malformed data
• (all) get_singleton failing often
• (GTK/X11) Full screen using the Xine renderer doesn’t work.
• (GTK/X11) Videos in Watched Folders seems to expire
• (all) update to libtorrent 0.14.5
• (Windows) upgrade to vlc 1.0.1
• (Windows) Miro Window appears offscreen
• (OS X) Users preferences dialog won’t open on os x
• (all) [patch included] Code still says “Subversion” in a few places (Thank you Jason Woofenden!)
• (all) miro crashes if get_filename returns None
• (all) TypeError?: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType? found
• (all) repr dataset reset on taborder_order fails when channel list contains folders
• (all) crashed caused when corrupted playlist taborder data
• (Windows) my parent (57065) is not in database – causes unknown error on startup
• (all) in _get_last_id, TypeError?: unsupported operand type(s) … unknown error
• (all) miro deletes media after migrating and restarting
• (all) NameError?: global name ‘ObjectNotFoundError?’ is not defined
• (OS X) no visible scrollbars, until I actually hit the scroll wheel
• (OS X) take out r in about dialog
• (OS X) watched folders not displaying in preferences – folders view after restart
• (OS X) [osx] call eventloop.join() to avoid the dl_daemon process from dying (Thank you Alessandro Decina!)

Changes and bug fixes in Miro 2.5.2:

• (all) Crash when deleting folder that contains watched folder
• (all) external downloads should have the date they were downloaded
• (all) setUploadLimit: long int too large to convert to int
• (GTK) Fullscreen does not work -> call_xss error
• (all) Kept videos deleted after update
• (all) Youtube video downloads are stuck in starting up
• (all) line 345, in query_ids OperationalError?: too many SQL variablesOperationalError: too many SQL variables
• (all) feedparser_callback fails with AttributeError?
• (all) self.icon_cache is None for some guides

Changes and bug fixes in Miro 2.5.1:

• (all) fixes a validation error
• (all) dialog shows when upgrading the database