31 January 2008

TED's Miro player launches today

TED and Miro announce the TED Miro player -- a free, downloadable, open-source media player that comes pre-loaded with TED's channels and content guide.

Download the TED Miro player here, for Mac and for Windows.

Using the channels, you can browse TEDTalks by Theme -- "A Greener Future," "Africa: The Next Chapter," and many more. And you have access to the entire universe of programming available through the Miro player -- thousands of channels of news, educational programming, music and other video and audio podcasts.

Update: If you've already got the Miro player installed, you can quickly add the TED channels by clicking "Subscribe to all TED channels in one click" here.

TED is one of three premier partners for the Miro player -- the other two are Revision3 and the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

The Miro player is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation. To learn more about Miro, visit GetMiro.com.

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Abhiroop Basu – May 22 2008

Just a note to everyone:
It is possible to use the TED Miro player on Ubuntu.

Go to: http://www.getmiro.com/download/ubuntu.php

Follow the directions (by adding the sources package and using synaptic to search for miro) and when searching for miro there should be a TED Miro Player.

NB: I haven't used this (Miro is giving me errors), but it looks like its there!
Emily McManus – May 21 2008

@Abhiroop -- visit http://www.getmiro.com/join/ to see a list of volunteer coding projects you can join, and more code resources
Abhiroop Basu – May 21 2008

Yes could we have the source code for it (since its open source?)
Stefan Krämer – April 17 2008

I agree to 100%! A website like launchpad would be the best solution to overcome the language barrier!
Tim Gowan – February 3 2008

Miro is available for Linux . I use it daily on Open Suse 10.3 Try Pacman Repository or Miro's home page.
Maurits Ruis – February 3 2008

Great initiative! But why is this player, being open source, not available for linux, being open source?
Camilo Telles – January 31 2008

Sirs,

i think that the principal problem to help TED spread his ideas is the barrier of language. Why not create a website like the launchpad from the Ubuntu project (or the launchpad ). In this website the community helps to translate the ubuntu project. The english version is uploaded and people around the world helps to translate. Here you can see the translation for the WordPress blog engine ( https://translations.launchpad.net/wordpress/1.5/+pots/wordpress/pt_BR/+translate?show=new_suggestions )

So, why not upload the english transcription of the lectures so we can help translate? And after that to do the subtitle is quite simple, google video has already the tools for it.

I have translated one video, I want to translate more, i want to help to spread TED's ideas, I think that some of your ideas will be much more helpfull in countries like mine (Brazil), but unfortunately the language barrier is a great problem.

Here is the Iqbal Qadir translation that I have done.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3581504804598863507

Best Regards

Camilo
Mike MacLeod – January 31 2008

This is awesome. I got it!