Participatory Culture Foundation - (Open Source)
Miro is a free HD video player that allows to play almost all kind of video file having many codecs included.
Miro intends to be initially a platform for Internet TV, smart and modern, but also promote the emergence of alternative channels. It offers a complete synchronization solution for Android phones, drawing heavily iTunes for iDevices in order to provide maximum tool to synchronize media or podcasts that iTunes libraries has as well.
Miro features a large number of codecs to immediately enjoy all movies , music and video clips without manual handling and also proposes to convert files before sync between devices . Amazon and Android Market are also present to provide quick access to paid or free applications download platforms and direct installation on smartphones and tablets.
The PCF (Participatory Culture Foundation) editor brings its browser, player, search, manager media library and platform into a new era. Indeed, in line with the famous "DoubleTwist" Miro seeks to establish itself as iTunes for Android Smartphones.
The software offers the possibility and subscribe to video podcasts, but also to search for and retrieve videos on many platforms as well as blogs and BitTorrent links. Once downloaded , they can be viewed in full screen directly from the built-in reader application . Particularly effective media player Miro supports most popular video and audio formats.
Miro allows to define a number of keyboard shortcuts, which can use its wireless keypad as a remote control.
* Bug fixes
o (OSX) fixed a possible cause for occasional crashes when stopping playback
o (OSX) fixed system activity timer which wasn't working correctly when going from one movie to the next
o #11636 FIXED disabled veoh search
o #11625 FIXED (OSX) Error dialog after clicking any feed on the sidebar: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data
o #11560 FIXED (OSX) MOVIES_DIRECTORY turns into a unicode when config.save is called
o #11600 FIXED (WIN) windows unicode error - first time startup search
* Updates
o updated translations from Launchpad on 3/25/2009