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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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All versions:
3.1 starsout of 195 votes
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Current version:
2.6 starsout of 10 votes
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"really good for downloading clips."
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros
Its really good for clips and music vids and great for downloading online tv make it a one stop program.
Cons
clips only play well after conersion to another format and I suppose it could download from more sites but thats just being picky.
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"good but flawed"
Version: Miro 1.1
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"Buggy, Bloated"
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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"Does what I wand and does it well"
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros
Easily organizes all my videos and downloads new one with easy.
Cons
A bit slow to operate some time.
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"No."
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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"Worthless"
Version: Miro 1.1
Cons
Doesn't play my videos (.mvb)
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"A piece of junk. Found 633 videos and couldn't compile a one"
Version: Miro 1.1
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"Just what I needed... I do news video/sound bites in my presentations."
Version: Miro 1.1
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"I prefer Joost !"
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros
I prefer Joost !
Cons
The user interface, very basic soft.
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"Error message"
Version: Miro 1.1
Pros
It's a great idea to make a video center wich can collect a lot of video clips and TV channels from the Internet right to your "desktop".
Cons
I always get an error message: Miro_MovieData.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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