Miro, the Open Source Media Player

NewAssignment.Net | One Year Since We Last Spoke

David Cohn says that Google may own YouTube, but there should be an alternative video player. Competition means accoutability – and competition offers an end run around attempts to censor political speech. And open source is a good way to go.

Just over a year ago NewAssignment.Net interviewed the founders of the Participatory Culture Foundation about their open source media player Democracy. Recently I had a chance to run into Nicholas Reville and thought it would be a good chance to find out what has happened in the last year. For starters, the OS media player called Democracy is now known as Miro. Let’s begin.

Q: What has happened in the last year in terms of growth?

Nicholas Reville: In the last year, we’ve gone from being a beta project with a relatively small user base to being a mainstream application. We’ve had almost 2 million downloads this year and we expect to have at least 5 times that next year. The 1.0 release in November really brought us to a new level.

Click here to read the rest of David Cohn’s article.

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