About Pittsburgh on Video

With the growth of on-line commercial video sites such as YouTube and Hulu, the Pittsburgh Foundation recognized that local journalism could reach more people by embracing online video. However, infrastructure did not exist to connect local video producers to a local audience. The large video sites were unable to meet the needs of a local community, so the Foundation partnered with Miro to build Pittsburgh on Video.

Miro is a free and open-source desktop video player designed to encourage decentralization of video hosting. The Miro project is part of the Particpatory Culture Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Worchester, MA. The project is funded by the The Knight Foundation, a national organization devoted to the improvement and sustainability of local journalism.

Pittsburgh on Video is a part of Miro Community, and is an open-source, community-based video hub that connects local creators of video to the local viewers. With this new hub and the relationships that it forms, a vibrant local community of video can flourish.

The site is moderated for content by The Pittsburgh Foundation, ensuring high quality community based videos are made available. Videos can be submitted by any member of the community for inclusion on the site via popular video hosting sites such as YouTube, Vimeo or BlipTV as well as by direct upload on the Pittsburgh on Video site. Submission instructions are available on this site.

Pittsburgh on Video features many advantages over large commercial sites including the removal of advertising from videos and the restoration of video quality by removing compression standards employed by commercial sites to return video to native format;easy to search and find videos of interest with titles, images and tags as well as most popular and featured videos areas; the ability to download the free Miro player software allowing favorite videos delivered via RSS feed directly to viewer's desktop.

Great thanks to Kyle Rabold for our new POV header image.

The Pittsburgh Foundation is one of the oldest and 15th largest of more than 700 community foundations in the United States.

About Miro Community

Miro Community s an easy open source video curation platform. Anyone can quickly embed, organize and display videos from around the internet. Miro Community is developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.