Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Software Update
Democracy Player now Miro
Back in March, the Participatory Culture Foundation announced that Democracy Player would be renamed as Miro, and the change is now official with a new release of the internet video player software, version 0.9.8 . The application's image has been totally revamped, including an overhaul of the official website and logo (of course), but the new technical preview version of Miro includes a dose of new additions and fixes, too:
- Keyboard shortcuts available on all platforms
- New 'report a bug' menu item added
- Veoh.com as a search engine added
- Additonal bug fixes and UI improvements
Miro 0.9.8 requires Mac OS X 10.3+ and QuickTime 7. Check out a demo of the software in action here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Rose said 11:33AM on 7-19-2007
Nice screenshot. Who is that handsome fellow swigging his beverage? He's dreamy. And he looks very intelligent, with kind eyes.
(check out http://forkyou.tv for more)
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steve said 12:19PM on 7-19-2007
Check out my full review of Miro. It's better than iTunes for video podcasts in many way.
http://www.last100.com/2007/07/17/democracy-player-is-dead-long-live-miro/
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derek said 12:19PM on 7-19-2007
isn't that scott? don't tell me you guys are going gay here... O_O
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Victor Agreda Jr said 12:51PM on 7-19-2007
That is indeed our own Mr. McNulty. His pal Marissa can also be found at Slashfood (another sister site of TUAW).
Food and video and blogs for everyone!
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Jason said 1:15PM on 7-19-2007
I seemed to have missed this when it was Democracy player. It's very cool. I am not even playing with the online features yet, but it seems to be a good video player by itself! Deals with random internet formats, and the playback seems to be much smoother than VLC, especially with Windows formats like AVI and WMV. It has watch folders! Super cool.
I think Miro is my new video player.
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Nikax said 10:05AM on 7-20-2007
I've fired it up three times and it crashes soon after. Not very useful.
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Brian said 1:23AM on 7-20-2007
Democracy would crash for me. Miro actually works. Who'd-a-thunk-it?
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Ed said 8:31PM on 7-21-2007
Been playing with it for a while and it seems stable and has a good library of content - found some new things. Works very nicely on Mac and pretty well on Windows too...
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