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Democracy Player now Miro

by Brian Liloia Jul 19th 2007 at 11:00AM



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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Ed

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...

July 21 2007 at 8:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Democracy would crash for me. Miro actually works. Who'd-a-thunk-it?

July 20 2007 at 1:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikax

I've fired it up three times and it crashes soon after. Not very useful.

July 19 2007 at 4:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

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.

July 19 2007 at 1:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

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!

July 19 2007 at 12:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
derek

isn't that scott? don't tell me you guys are going gay here... O_O

July 19 2007 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve O'Hear

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/

July 19 2007 at 12:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

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)

July 19 2007 at 11:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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