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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 197,559
- Downloads last week: 339
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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.
Version 2.0.3 is a bug-fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.0.3 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of Miro 2.0.3
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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Version: Miro 2.0.3
"Best download movie program ever"
Pros: easy to use
Cons: all the videos are put in different folders
Summary: Very easy program but if you want to add those videos to itunes you have to hunt them down one by one
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Version: Miro 2.0.3
"Good for HD if PC is not quite fast enuf for web HD"
Pros: Let's me see how other's with faster PC's will see my videos online. Could be used by others to watch my HD videos if they can't see them online.
Cons: There was no mention of installing an ask.com search bar . When you have downloaded and unzipped you have to install this search bar with it. I could not see an option to install Miro.
Summary: Not really had a chance to use it for much yet but it is my HD video sharing solution which I use in conjunction with youtube and blip. It has worked for that. My camera uses a video format I'd rather not have and requires a software download which ... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 2.0.3
Pros: nada, nothing
Cons: I'll stay away from this one.
Summary: If it's that slow downloading it's just as bad as iTunes.
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Version: Miro 2.0.3
Pros: Nice interface
Cons: I have broadband, but it is still too slow to download movies. The HD files are just too large.
Summary: It functions okay but when a movie download takes a day or more to download...don't bother unless you have a very fast broadband connection.
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Version: Miro 2.0.3
Pros: Clear interface, wide selection of channels. Was good while it worked.
Cons: After an hour or so of using, it started crashing after every video I tried to watch. It would just freeze constantly and permanently.
Summary: Unexplained crashes occuring at the end of EVERY SINGLE VIDEO make it impossible to use the software.
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