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Miro 1.0 released: It's not Joost, but it is open source
Miro is positioning itself as an alternative to Joost, but we're not sure the comparison is apt. Joost lets you watch professionally produced content in a custom-built streaming video player that brings a TV-like experience to your computer. Miro lets you download and watch videos that you could have gotten from other places -- but Miro makes finding video from thousands of sources all kinds of easy.
Miro is also open-source, cross-platform (with Mac, Linux, and Windows versions available), and 100% DRM-free. And while the fact that you can't watch streaming video might seem like a disadvantage, Miro dos a pretty good job of downloading videos that weren't really meant for saving to your computer. In other words, it's a handy application to have around if you want to download "web-only" videos from sites like YouTube.
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Subscribe to commentsMiroNov 13th 2007 10:39PM
I'm glad someone has named this software "Miro". It's quite a common name in central Europe. People from western countries don't pronounce it correctly.
It's Miro people. Not Maro!!!
Nice piece of software though, I use it on my Mac.
jfjbNov 14th 2007 6:54PM
piece of crap
-- it refused to send the crash report after loading an AVI file set at instal time, seconds before, to recognise...
-- it refused to "quit"
-- it refused to "exit"
I had to undo the process with task manager
( Win XP Pro, 1GB RAM, 256MB Radeon X700 at 1280x1024, etc., almsot plain vanilla install )
sorry, dudes
jfjbNov 14th 2007 7:15PM
after uninstal, it left 121 entries in the registry, thanks to cCleaner and RegCleaner to the rescue.
NOW, if onerefers at oneself as an opensource clean competition, one should keep in mind - or track - what one does with an OS at install time, don't you think so? And if one needs different install procedures for each and every OS, one has to refine one's 'agorythm' techniques.
Well, maye I'm wrong, maybe I did something wrong. I'd like to know, though, and not die stupid.
Thanks in advance for the dream.
jfjbNov 14th 2007 7:15PM
I meant RegSeeker, not RegCleaner
:-)