I was really skeptical when I heard about Miro back then when it was still named the Democracy Player. That did change when I finally managed to test Miro and it really blew me away. If you never heard of Miro before let me explain the main concept. Miro is not just another media player, it’s actually much more than that. It helps you organize the videos on your computer with options to watch folders for new videos that are automatically added to Miro. It’s possible to create video playlists and create channels and groups to sort your videos. Thumbnails will be created for videos that have none.
That was just one feature of Miro. The main one in my opinion is the ability to download videos from various sources including Bittorrent, video portals like Youtube, URLs and Video RSS feeds with subscription possibilities. So called Search Channels can be created. Say you like football and regularly check Youtube for new football videos. You could create a search channel which gets automatically updated when new videos get published.
A new version was released today which is a major step for the Miro team. Miro should run a lot smoother in this version especially because of the update to XULRunner 1.9 which should bring performance and memory improvements to the Windows and Linux clients. Check out the release notes if you are interested in a detailed list of changes.
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I’ve been reading about this for a week or so now, that search channel feature sounds pretty sweet… I’m just a little skeptical about things running and downloading things in the background… maybe I’ll give it a test run this weekend.