Stealin' Your Megahurtz » Fixes http://stealinurmegahurtz.com Politics, Technology, Humor... You know, a general waste of time. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:49:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= No Video, Audio Only Fix for Mirohttp://stealinurmegahurtz.com/2009/06/no-video-audio-only-fix-for-miro/ http://stealinurmegahurtz.com/2009/06/no-video-audio-only-fix-for-miro/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:48:03 +0000 ardichoke http://stealinurmegahurtz.com/?p=170 I use Miro (http://www.getmiro.com) pretty much every day to download and watch media. Today on my Windows box, however, it decided to no longer play back video. The audio played just fine but I only got a blank screen for video. I did some extensive googling, all of which turned up the same thing, a fix that could be applied by installing VLC (the media player Miro uses), tweaking the video settings, then copying a certain file to a certain directory and restarting Miro. Unfortunately, everyone that posted about this fix linked to some Miro documentation that no longer existed for the specifics. After a bunch of trial and error, I finally figured out where everything needed to go for the fix. Please note, these instructions are based on a “standard” Windows XP setup in which the system drive is C and your profile is stored in C:\Documents and Settings… in other words ymmv.

  1. Install the latest VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc)
  2. Open one of Miro videos using VLC.
  3. Go to Tools > Preferences > Video and change the settings until your video actually displays correctly (note: you will need to restart VLC between each change to notice any effects, the most common setting that causes problems is “Accelerated Video Output” being enabled.)
  4. Once you have your video displaying correctly in VLC, go to C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data\vlc and copy the vlcrc file
  5. Open C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data\PCF-VLC and paste the working vlcrc file here.
  6. Make sure Miro is closed, launch a fresh copy of Miro and voila! Video should now output properly.

Also, I’d like to say to the people that make Miro, I love your product and think you are doing a great job. The documentation on your site, however, is hard to use and sorely lacking. Perhaps you should consider implementing a more traditional wiki for issues such as this and keeping an archive in place so links to common fixes don’t go bad in the future.

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