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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT
- Date added: December 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 217,163
- Downloads last week: 626
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 165 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 and torrent downloader. 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.
What's new in this version:
Miro 2.5.4 improves torrent performance and improves compatibility for Windows 7.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 165 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 2.5.4
"Version 2.5.4 (927b1c8d) has adware"
Pros: It can download torrent files
Cons: Extremely bulky & ram eater. Download are never really fast.
Summary: The newest update of Miro comes with an adware and a browser hijacker and installs Bing toolbar without giving you an option to uncheck. It will also change your home page to Miro start page. If you have an antispyware program that monitors such act... read more >>
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Version: Miro 2.5.4
Pros: these guys dont know how to use it. i use it for torrent downloads
Cons: not much, just slow download time
Summary: bottom line if your good then you can figure it out if you need help email me at rhart12182@yahoo.com
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 2.5.4
Pros: Could not find any tv stations except 2
Cons: was not what i expected
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 2.5.4
Pros: nice visuals (when it worked)
Cons: poorly written updater. made my unit crash
Summary: please improve updater and migration tools !!!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 2.5.4
"Best Video Podcaster on the market, and free"
Pros: Takes a little time to understand the program logic, but once mastered the features become very nice, like full screen HD, download and "take video with you" to watch when you want. I choose many downloads and let the computer download while I sleep
Cons: Takes some time to learn, but well worth the effort
Summary: Has the most extenseive and accessable videos and podcasts I have ever seen, many downloads with high intellectual level, very mixed programs in many languages. I download English and Russian podcasts that are excellent and have cut my tv watching d... read more >>
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