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Miro

Miro 0.9.9 running under Windows, showing the Miro guide in the main window.
Developer(s)	Participatory Culture Foundation
Initial release	21 February 2006, 11:42 (2006-02-21T11:42) (0.8.0-rc4 = earliest known)
Stable release	2.5.4  (2009-12-04; 28 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release	SVN  (n/a) [+/−]
Written in	Python using GTK
Operating system	Cross-platform Linux Mac OS X Microsoft Windows
Size	~2.0 MB (Linux) 15.28 MB (Mac OS X) 28.50 MB (Windows) 9.28 MB (Source code) (all archived)
Available in	More than 40 languages
Development status	Active
Type	Internet television RSS+BitTorrent Media player
License	GNU GPL v2 or later/GNU LGPL/BSD license (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. The program supports most known video files and offers sound and video, some in HD quality. The software is downloaded several million times a year.

Miro is free software released under the GNU General Public License.^[2]

[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.

Examples of supported video files are QuickTime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID as a video player. It also supports RSS BitTorrent. When a new video is available, the program will notify and download if possible.

[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. In 2008, Miro switched from the XUL user interface used in many Mozilla-based applications to the gtkmozembed interface as part of efforts to streamline the rendering of the GUI.

[edit] Reception

A link to download Miro and Mozilla Firefox appeared on the front page of The Pirate Bay in July 2009 underneath a notice "We love free software."

Miro received a favorable review from Josh Quittner who wrote "I have seen the future of television and it’s an application called Miro."^[3]

[edit] See also

Free software portal

Television portal

• Broadcatching
• Peercasting
• Open Media Network
• Zattoo
• Joost

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Miro

• Official Miro website
• Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro - last100, July 17 2007
• CNET 5 Star Review 2009
• CNET Blog article on how to use Miro to automatically download the latest TV shows of your choice
• CNET Video Review of Democracy Player - Dated
• Groklaw interview with Nicholas Reville, February 2008