Scan & Fix 50 registry issues FREECNET Editors' review
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.
Publisher's Description
From Participatory Culture:
Democracy Player is a free and open source internet TV/video podcast application, with a beautiful, easy to use interface. You can subscribe to any internet TV channel, including video podcasts, video RSS feeds, bittorrent feeds, and video blogs. A built-in Channel Guide lists hundreds of channels of all types, all free to subscribe to. Browse videos, download, and watch fullscreen-- all in the same application.
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.
More Products to Consider
-
Play audio and video files in real-time and streaming modes. -
Play video files of multiple video formats. -
Play digital media of various formats with 3D and WiDi support. -
Play virtually any media file in open-source cross-platform mul... -
Convert, edit video and audio files for multimedia devices. -
Play all the most popular video and audio formats. -
Play various types of video, audio, movie, music files in Media... -
Merge and combine VOB and MPEG files. -
Find and download videos from YouTube, VideU, and MyVideo Web s... -
Convert video and YouTube to AVI, WMV, MP4, FLV, MP3, burn vide... -
Play all multimedia files and find subtitles automatically. -
Convert your videos, audios, and pictures to preferable file fo... -
Automate offloading for HD digital media. -
Convert and edit your video files adding slide shows and titles... -
Discover and play online videos, download, save, organize, and ... -
Convert your video files for 14 popular digital devices. -
Encode multimedia files using Avisynth on PC. -
Convert any formats video to iPad, iPhone, AVCHD, Blu-Ray, DVD. -
Convert video between various formats at the highest possible s... -
Play 99.9 percent of files with a collection of codecs for Wind... -
Edit MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video with Smart Re... -
Play, create, and stream high-quality video. -
Burn any video to DVD disc, DVD folder or ISO files. -
Play a large number of formats.
-
All versions:
4.3 starsout of 24 votes
-
Current version:
0 stars Be the first to review this product -
My rating:
Write review
-
"Sort of Pointless."
Version: Miro 4.0.3
Pros
Miro used to provide what wasn't available elsewhere, now it's redundant.
Cons
There are better options to this
-
"Been using Miro for years."
Version: Miro 3.5.1
Pros
Flies under the peer/peer radar.
Cons
Too much automation
Summary
Works fine in the background fine.
-
"Nice program"
Version: Miro 3.5.1
Pros
Seems easy to use.
Cons
I have found none.
Summary
I would recommend this program to anyone looking for something similar.
This program seems to work well and I enjoy using it.
Updated on Dec 23, 2010 -
"Better and Better"
Version: Miro 3.5
Pros
"One-stop shopping" with lots of content to download, improved speed, visually appealing.
Cons
File organization in need of an overhaul, as it can get quite confusing. No obvious, simple way to transfer files to iTunes.
Summary
Excellent app for "one-stop shopping" of video content, continually improved upon by the developer.
-
"this looks really cool"
Version: Miro 3.0.3
Pros
It allows me access to us based vids without having to switch to the stupid and always lame Canadian version.
Cons
too soon to be throwing stones.
Summary
I have only just downloaded this app but am impressed with the speed and ease of use.
-
"Great program for the casual viewer"
Version: Miro 2.5.4
Pros
User friendly. Lets me watch old movies and TV programs. Downloads and stores YouTube videos locally. Open source.
Cons
It is very easy to end up with many gigabytes of stored video :-)
Summary
This is a very good program for the casual user of online video. And the price is right.
-
"exceeelent product and great search"
Version: Miro 2.5.4
Pros
easy t find videos but would like to ssee open or closed captioning for the hea ring impaired.
Cons
no closed captioing.
-
"HULU WORKS NO MORE AFTER LAST TWO UPDATES"
Version: Miro 2.5.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Sadly something is amiss and one cannot view Hulu in Miro anymore. I can see it fine in my web browsers (Firefox and Safari) but Miro just sits there--doesn't begin to que/buffer or anything.
Hulu Desktop also works fine and I cannot believe I am now forced to recommend Hulu Desktop or web browsers over Miro.
Sorry guys. It was fun while it lasted but I guess it's goodbye for now. Guess I'll check back in a few months after Snow Leopard to see if all is well again. -
"Anyone having problems with Hulu inside Miro?"
Version: Miro 2.5
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Since the last two updates (this and the previous), my Hulu seems to have stopped working in Miro. It never pulls in a video program. I know it works properly outside in both Firefox and the Hulu Desktop application, so something seems awry in Miro.
Anyone else having this problem? -
"What happened to the ''new'' sidebar list unde..."
Version: Miro 2.5
Summary
...''Li
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I'm sure there are a lot of nice new things here but why did you have to remove the sidebar list under the Library where one could simply find and play newly downloaded stuff? What was nice about this was the simplicity. New stuff not played appeared here and within a few seconds of clicking ''play'' it would unlist, leaving only the ''new stuff'' that had not been played yet.
PLEASE bring this back. It was really nice.
Or--is this a new smartlist kind of thing I have to create myself?
Going to check your forums now to see...
Add Your Review
Submit your reply
E-mail this review
Report offensive content
Previous Versions:
