Few days ago, one of my friends posted an excellent list of applications for watching free TV over the internet and got huge amount of traffic on that post. No doubt, it was an interesting article but he forgot to mention one such service named Miro.
Miro (previously known as Democracy Player) is another application for watching TV on the internet. What makes it different is it’s ease of use and maximum compatibility. It is based on XULRunner, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License.
Features:
Compatible with all major video formats including Quicktime, Flash Video, Windows Media, H.264, Divx, AVI, MPEG and more, Miro is capable of displaying quality sharpness in larger displays and works well in full screen unlike the grungy Youtube and other online video services.
Video management goes easy with its two excellent features. Firstly you can tell Miro to delete videos automatically from your personal channels after some days or you can keep any particular video permanently. Secondly you can set Disk Quota for downloading video and it will keep itself under that limit. By seamless integration with Bittorrent, downloaded video from torrents will add up automatically in Miro playlist same as if you are downloading it directly from Miro.
With auto download feature from Video RSS, Miro can download videos automatically from source as soon as they go live {Undo this if the videos are overloading you}. Miro indicates new and unwatched videos in different channels with bubbles of two colors blue and green. It will show green if the new videos are downloaded to your PC but not been viewed, or will show blue in the other case. It is an open project, and thats why supports all major OS’s {Mac, windows and Linux}. Volunteers from all over the world are consistently helping improve the program {If you are a developer, here is the source code list for you to participate in the improvement of the application}
No doubt that Miro is an awesome program with so many features and honestly, after trying this, I became fond of it. Try it yourself and post your experiences below.
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It’s a piece of garbage – when you can’t get it to work and get ZERO support what do you do – uninstall of course. It took me two days to find all the hidden files, registry entries and file associations it changed. Then couldn’t get any other media programs to work right – ended up reinstalling XP. Please don’t recommend this to unsuspecting users…
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