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 handling of ssl certificate errors on OSX
o #11917 FIXED Youtube Videos not downloading - "Error File not found"
o #11867 FIXED blip.tv site title is blank after restart
o #10695 FIXED (GTK-X11) Miro complains that my disk is full when it is not
o #11879 FIXED (GTK-X11) (r9694) Miro guide isn't displaying
o #10465 FIXED (GTK-X11) Miro 2.0.3 fails to start up on a Turkish system
o #11262 FIXED (GTK-X11) python 2.6 support
o #10801 FIXED (GTK-X11) Miro ends with segmentation fault on openSuSE 11.1 -- define MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME. Thanks Marco!
o #11583 FIXED (GTK-X11) Can't compile against seamonkey xulrunner package. Thanks Larry!
* Updates
o #11794 FIXED updated to libtorrent 0.14.4
o updated translations from Launchpad on 6/22/2009