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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 209,053
- Downloads last week: 562
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 153 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 10, 2009
Providing one-stop shopping for all your video needs, open-source and cross-platform Miro deserves much of the praise that's been heaped upon it. The latest major point to version 2.0 continues to impress.
The concept is brilliant, yet simple: Create a video player that can subscribe to and download video podcasts while managing the videos you've saved on your hard drive. On the face of it, this might sound like iTunes, but the sharing component is an essential aspect of the program. Miro has always been geared toward video and it shows in the program's design. When you launch the app, a left sidebar hosts a folder tree for managing your videos. The central pane does double duty for viewing videos and searching for new ones, although the latest version lets you pop out the viewing window so you can multitask your viewing and browsing. The bottom hosts a search box, for parsing through Google, YouTube, Yahoo, and others, a video control panel, and a volume control. Somewhat confusingly, there's also a search box at the top of the main window.
Features include full torrent support, so you can download and view torrents in the same app, folder watching (to manage only the hard-drive folders you specify for new videos), resumable playback, channel surfing (which organizes video feeds by topic), video sharing and hosting, and assistance in creating and distributing videos. The biggest changes in 2.0, though, are in the guts of the program. It loads faster and is immeasurably more stable than before.
Publisher's description
From Participatory Culture :Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts. You can subscribe to channels of Internet video, download videos, and watch them full screen, one after the other, all in one application. Miro has a simple interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Miro is completely free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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Version: Miro 2.5.3
Pros: works good last a long time
Cons: none that I know of
Summary: recommended usage
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Version: Miro 2.5.3
"I never use what seemed like a great product."
Pros: Miro is free and offers a lot of programming.
Cons: I find very little of interest in what is available.
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Version: Miro 2.5.3
Pros: Has nice viewing and loads quick.
Cons: Would like to scan my system to pick up new videos added
Summary: I will continue to use Miro.
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Version: Miro 2.5.3
Pros: Never got it running long enough to find out any pros
Cons: Freezes, locks up, and crashes every chance it gets. Resource hog. Doesn't download all videos from all sites, only what it feels like doing at the time.
Summary: I only had this player on my computer for a few minutes and it must have crashed 10 times. Every time I clicked on something it crashed. Once it was open it wouldn't let me switch to another window (my web browser), it just stayed active and froze u... read more >>
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Version: Miro 2.5.3
Pros: nice interface
Cons: doesn't play all my videos that were in my library from real player. the help icon should be more helpful with step by step instructions
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