TV with DVR & Internet: $89.90/mo
- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 28, 2008
- Total Downloads: 187,585
- Downloads last week: 558
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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 1.2.4 logs os.system and os.machine on startup to make it easier to know more about a user's system from the log.
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Version 1.2.4 logs os.system and os.machine on startup to make it easier to know more about a user's system from the log.
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User reviews of Miro 1.2.4
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.4
"found the program easy to use and playback is good"
Pros: easy to work out how it works, easy to play back your downloads and also that it finds vids from various locations
Cons: dont like the fact that it keeps on downloading vids that i dont want
Summary: i was able to work out how to use it instantly wich is good when your new to this kind of thing as i am, and that you get to keep your favourite videos on your pc to play when you like, i dont like having to delete vidios that have down loaded autom... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.4
Pros: I like being able to watch old movies and tv shows(things I grew up with). I like the cutting edge video's and I like the ability to hear from the common person(like me) a summary of opinion concerning the world and its problems.I want to know what someone in Brazil thinks, or in Alaska, or Japan, or the mid-east etc..
Cons: I don't like the fact that I just saw a price tag of $999 on the Cnet download page. I was told, as was everyone else, that Miro would stay free and now I see that it will be sold?; shame on you Miro, shame on you.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.4
"A great player, if you can afford to wait 3 mins for it to load."
Pros: It's very versatile, playing just about all known file formats.
Cons: Incredibly slow to load - up to 3 mins. Then, once the application is open, you have to wait another couple of minutes for all the channels to load. I just don't have the patience and have uninstalled it.
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Version: Miro 1.2.4
Pros: Nice picture and versatility
Cons: Seems to list several copies of same file arbitrarily.
Summary: Good overall program for its purpose.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.2.4
"Just a customized web browser"
Pros: None None None
Cons: Just a stupid browser
Summary: If i want to download videos i will use bittorrent instead. This piece of crap is just a browser for you to download stuff. search and download. nothing more. And most of the clips are uninteresting
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