Miro (software)
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 Miro 0.9.9 running under Windows, showing the Miro guide in the main window. |
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| Developer(s) | Participatory Culture Foundation |
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| Stable release | 2.0.4 (2009-03-09) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none (n/a) [+/−] |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Internet television |
| License | GPL (free software) |
| Website | getmiro.com |
Miro (previously known as Democracy Player and DTV[1]) is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Miro is free software released under the GNU General Public License.[2]
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[edit] Features
Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based “channels”, manage them and play them. The application is designed to mesh with other PCF products such as Video Bomb, a social tagging video website, and the Channel Channel, a TV guide for Internet television.
Miro integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client (based on libtorrent), and a media player (VLC media player under Windows, QuickTime under Mac OS X, and Xine Media Player or GStreamer under Linux). Since 2.0, Miro supports the adding of website bookmarks under the “Sites” category; by default, LegalTorrents.com is preloaded in Miro as a bookmark.
[edit] History
The application was first launched in 2005 as DTV, with the name being changed to Democracy Player in 2006 and Miro in 2007. Video searching of web-based video archives was included in 2007, although access to Veoh was dropped in 2007–2008 when Veoh adopted an incompatible API. A link to download Miro and Firefox was on the front page of the Pirate Bay in July 2009 underneath a notice "We love free software."
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[edit] References
- ^ Nicholas Reville (12 March 2007). "A Name Change". http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2007/03/a-name-change/. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.; Nicholas Reville (17 July 2007). "Announcing Miro". http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2007/07/announing-miro/. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
- ^ "Get Miro download page". http://www.getmiro.com/download/. "...the software code, which is licensed under the GPL."
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Miro |
- Official Miro website
- Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro - last100, July 17 2007
- CNET Video Review of Democracy Player - Dated
- CNET Blog article on how to use Miro to automatically download the latest TV shows of your choice
- Groklaw interview with Nicholas Reville, February 2008
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