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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 23, 2008
- Total Downloads: 182,266
- Downloads last week: 3,328
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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: CNET Staff
Providing one-stop shopping for all your video needs, open-source Miro deserves much of the praise that's been heaped upon it.
The concept is brilliant, yet simple: create a video player that can subscribe to and download video podcasts while comprehensively managing your saved videos. 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. The bottom hosts a search box for parsing through Google, YouTube, Yahoo, and others, a video control panel, and a volume control.
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 videos.
Miro version 1.0 includes a startup guide, permalinks, search-result memory, and a much more stable platform.
Publisher's description
From Participatory Culture :Miro makes video on the Internet less frustrating and more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of Internet video, download videos, and watch them full screen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes Internet TV.
Version 1.2.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 1.2.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Miro 1.2.3
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.3
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.3
Pros: The idea.
Cons: Needs further work. STILL unstable in Vista Aero mode.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.3
"this software came on tv gadgetshow its great"
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.3
Pros: For those who believe it is infected. the recent malware attack revolved around people downloading files which were renamed to look like music and movies, but instead engineer a situation where lots of other stuff gets installed on the host PC, causing all sorts of problems. While viewing some of the filenames listed by McAfee, I had to remind myself that I was a novice once too - but it was still a stretch for me to believe so many people would download files that look like these:
preview-t-3545425-adult.mpg
preview-t-3545425-changing times earth wind .mp3
preview-t-3545425-meet bambi in kings harem.mp3
preview-t-3545425-middle eastern chick.mpg
preview-t-3545425-theme godfather.mp3
t-3545425-bentley bizzle.mp3
t-3545425-haloween special.mp3
t-3545425-just got lucky.mp3
t-3545425-peanut butter jelly amende.mp3
The good news is that the chances of these type of files appearing on BitTorrent are very low as trackers have moderators who remove such junk, something which is largely impossible on Gnutella (LimeWire) and eMule (ed2k). As long as the ?infected? users keep this stuff in their shared folder, there is little that can be done to stop it spreading. If they don?t clean this stuff out, no-one will, and it?s in this department BitTorrent comes out tops - again.
First of all, BitTorrent isn?t a ?folder sharing? client like LimeWire or KaZaA, which means that the user needs to use a torrent site to distribute (publish) his torrent. If the content is legitimate (and there are very few rules in most places, save obviously illegal material) the .torrent file will be up for all to download, with links to malware and viruses mostly filtered out by humans - otherwise known as ?mods? or ?moderators?.
BitTorrent has thousands of hard working and largely unpaid moderators, who work tirelessly to make sure that files like these don?t make it to the BitTorrent user?s computer. In reality, files presented like the ones above could never slip by the site mods, they would see them a mile away and remove them quickly.
BitTorrent isn?t 100% malware free but compared to Gnutella and ed2k, it is astonishingly healthy and that is largely down to the strength of the system and the mods, who work non-stop behind the scenes to keep BitTorrent an enjoyable experience.
For the few small things that slip through the net, try our guides.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.3
Pros: I have seen comments on reviews of Miro citing that it is infected, and then usually saying that VEHO or another player is better - yet nothing saying which spyware or malware Miro supposedly has. I have it installed and have done a full scan and nothing has been flagged by ad-aware or any anti-virus software (I tried three). I would be very careful about any download - and I found none here with Miro.
Cons: Many interesting clips, but I really want to have pod-casts of BBC programmes - haven't found this anywhere yet.
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