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.
# New features
- (OS X) Play gvi Google Video format media
# Bug fixes
- (all) Updated translations
- (all) Some files downloaded from YouTube unplayable in Miro
- (all) Licensing issues with ffmpeg
- (all) Miro doesn't remember list view for library tabs
- (all) Miro 3.5 may not play some .mkv files
- (all) update all wiki urls
- (all) Downloader doesn't shutdown when main process hangs
- (all) Bad Spanish translation: "Error-Archivo no ecotrado"
- (Linux) Play button sometimes fails to do anything
- (Linux) Files in unsupported formats silently skipped
- (Linux) media keys handling is wrong
- (Linux) Video converter does not coerce child window dimensions to integer
- (Linux) Error when playing movies that haven't been checked
- (Linux) Error when deleting newly-downloaded video
- (Linux) Crashes in frontend thread not getting sent to the error dialog
- (Linux) Changing play in miro while playing causes error
- (OS X) miro crashes on launch on Mac OSX when user home dir contains non-ascii chars (ex: Björn)
- (OS X) can not install in a path with non-ascii charaters
- (OS X) matroska files fail conversion
- (OS X) Crash with unicode error when trying to play
- (OS X) Crash when quitting during playback error
- (Windows) Miro randomly crashes after finishing video playback
- (Windows) in ask_for_http_auth ValueError: Scheme not present in auth header: NEGOTIATE,NTLM,BASIC realm="stuproxy"
- (Windows) "application configuration incorrect" error preventing miro startup
- (Windows) Incorrect video remaining duration displayed
- (Windows) log windows version
- (Windows) Preferences dialog will not open if Windows font path is not C:WindowsFonts