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Miro 1.0
If you're into videoblogging, and it would seem that everyone is these days, then you have to check out Miro (you may know it as Democracy player). Billed as 'groundbreaking Internet TV software,' Miro 1.0, which was released yesterday, allows you to search, subscribe to, and view any number of video podcasts. A handy guide is built right into the client so you'll never be without content, but if you can't find something that strikes your fancy there the ability to search across a number of video sharing sites is also baked right into the app.
Miro allows you to organize your subscriptions in channels, create playlists, and much more. Miro, as you might expect, is free and requires OS X 10.3 (though 10.4 is required to play some videos). A Windows and Linux client is available as well, but who uses those platforms anymore?
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running said 7:43AM on 11-14-2007
to tell the truth, I don't like Miro at all. It does thousand things I will never use (why should I download bittorent through it? I have azureus! why should I look at youtube through it? i have safari.... and so on) and none of these things is perfect .... it just does a dozend things but none of them really good .... just my opinion
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David said 7:53AM on 11-14-2007
A built in BT client is great if you want all your tv shows automatically downloaded (via rss) and want them together with your video podcasts, which Miro is vastly superior to iTunes for.
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Cal said 8:03AM on 11-14-2007
The torrent client is awesome. It is usually faster then Transmission or Xtorrent. I don't know why, it must just come with a good default setup.
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Sean Flanagan said 9:33AM on 11-14-2007
I need to catch up on my Scott McNulty facts. I was all set to make fun of you for making a fake cooking show, only to find out that is, in fact, a real cooking show! Ladies and gentlemen, what can't he do? :-D
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Tango Charlie said 11:57AM on 11-14-2007
Does anyone know if the BT client supports encryption?
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Michael Schmitt said 12:17PM on 11-14-2007
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Russell said 4:38PM on 11-14-2007
In answer to your question, most people do.
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Bryan Bortz said 8:02PM on 11-14-2007
It's so slowww.
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adisor19 said 9:29AM on 11-15-2007
So how does this compare to VLC ? Does it handle MPEG-TS files better ? Or how about WMV files ? Can you FF in them without the whole thing becoming corrupt ?
I'm downloading it now but would appreciate some info on what i can expect..
Adi
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Crotalus said 8:04PM on 1-16-2008
I think Miro is the best app that I used in 2007 by far. It is flawless from what I have seen. Sent it up with the podcasts and TV programs you want and it dl and organizes them and they are all there ready to view with a decent interface.
If they had an easy way to then get the TV content onto an Ipod Touch / iPhone then it would be perfect.
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