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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 17, 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 1.1 features dramatic improvements to the Bit Torrent Manager and a combined search function.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.1 features dramatic improvements to the Bit Torrent Manager and a combined search function.
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User reviews of Miro 1.1
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.1
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros: Lots of "channels" to surf.
Cons: The software took over 100meg of ram. Wouldn't properly quit, I had to force it to quit by ending the process in the Windows Task Manager. Uninstall didn't clean up everything. Idea was great, execution failed.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros: Pretty interface.
Cons: I want to like Miro far better than I do; however, I just don't.
It's chunky and clunky. Downloads are slow. Noticeably sowed my computer; footprint is heavy. Tough to navigate from page to page while searching. The content isn't anything I can't get elsewhere.
I was disappointed but I'll keep an eye out as it morphs.
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Version: Miro 1.1
"Does what I wand and does it well"
Pros: Easily organizes all my videos and downloads new one with easy.
Cons: A bit slow to operate some time.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Miro 1.1
Cons: Doesn't play my videos (.mvb)
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