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
- (all) history page ... what did I just play?
- (all) Offer to add iTunes music library as a watched folder
- (all) extension system
- (all) Add a menu item to 'Import Media'
- (all) add shuffle/repeat playback options
- (all) Add autodownload configuration in options
- (all) Impossible to delete a video without mouse during playback
- (all) copy video url should always be active
- (all) Add support for magnet links
- (all) move download stats to bottom of view
- (all) Video controls look disabled
- (all) extend context menu for items for copying url
- (all) select urls from feed settings dialog
- (all) Add option to detect audio files in first time startup
- (all) add a watched / unwatched filter option to feeds
- (all) no way to clear last search result
- (all) Remember Last Tab/Sort Order/Scroll Position in Media List/Sidebar
- (Linux) app indicator support
- (all) Support Amazon Download Store
- (all) IPv6 capability
- (OS X) new volume slider
- (all) no matches in a view should show "no matches"
- (all) remove -git checking; add app.debugmode
- (all) build regression test system for feedparser
- (all) Make transfering to portable music player easier
- (all) Implement top-level Podcasts tab
- (all) Create widget for 'rating' metadata
- (all) add dev menu
- (all) edit item properties in bulk
- (all) arrows for song skipping, spacebar for play / pause
- (all) new 'Stores' sidebar section
- (all) Miro Connect screen design
- (all) New Item details Pane
- (all) save crash reports to a file on disk near the log files
- (all) global preferences for showing / hiding podcast content in library tabs
- (all) add Android Market as a default Store in sidebar
- (all) add "see crash report" button to crash reporter dialog
- (Linux) Make download/cancel feel faster
- (all) Improve sort performance
- (all) Add DHT support to Miro
- (Linux) no conversion - copies should have their own queue
- (all) make optional miro guide open on default
- (all) implement Import Media
- (all) default stores, source, podcasts
* Bug fixes
- (all) Security Audit of Launching external player
- (all) relative links fails to resolve.
- (OS X) complete *.divx file support
- (all) thumbnail generations retries to generate thumbnails on items where it previously failed.
- (OS X) Dragging metal area does nothing
- (OS X) Miro treats *.iMovieProject files as folders
- (OS X) Get Error Changing Movies Directory. You don't have permission to write to the directory you selected.
- (Linux) Miro causes a lot wake-ups while idle
- (Windows) On windows vista, runs first time setup screen everytime it is launch. (doesn't retain settings)
- (OS X) Miro dock icon counts, but Miro does nothing else
- (Windows) Main window stops responding
- (all) Expandable/Collapsable Sidebar Sections
- (Windows) Miro prevents Windows shut down
- (all) implement navigate with arrows
- (OS X) Paused Videos prevent the system from starting the screensaver
- (all) There's no copy and paste. Makes it hard to add a channel from something you find within Miro
- (Linux) Video playback is squished after disabling dual screen
- (Linux) setting HOME environment for running in test sandbox variable causes problems
- (all) add items to playlists dynamically
- (Linux) (r8952) resizing of options dialog
- (all) Differentiate between feeds and watchfolders
- (OS X) Can't terminate Miro upon crash through trick dialog
- (Windows) Crash when replaying a video repeatedly, each time resuming where left off
- (Windows) Installed 2.0 over 1.2 - videos in folder being watched all appear twice
- (Linux) Accessibility: font size too small on 2.0.1 (r9185)
- (Linux) ABC World News videos are always dowloaded twice
- (all) remove single_feed code from codebase
- (all) crash when Miro can't write to movies directory
- (OS X) No Growl Notifications
- (Windows) Miro freezes when we use Playback > Stop menu item, when playing .wmv video files
- (OS X) Crash when guide has bad unicode characters.
- (Linux) Miro Crashes Immediately When Playing Video
- (OS X) Can't play Ogg Theora videos
- (OS X) miro hangs when switching subtitle track on mkv file
- (all) "Contents appear in the library" duplicated when feed description edited.
- (Windows) SSL certificate problem
- (OS X) qt_extractor.py redundantly run?
- (OS X) memory leaks on OS X
- (all) fold ADOPTERS into CREDITS
- (all) Get rid of psyco on Mac
- (all) Large watchfolders may introduce unnecessary stall/delay
- (Linux) resume not working under certain circumstances
- (all) newly downloaded database view is broken, breaks Mac OS X unwatched count in dock
- (all) give indication of time remaining for sync to complete
- (all) Don't upsize conversions
- (all) Miro stops and reports error when incomplete frame encountered on conversion - should ignore it.
- (Windows) crash after trying to play locked .m4v files from itunes store
- (all) remove adopt-a-line bits
- (OS X) Race with QuickTime implementation
- (all) write unittests for ffmpeg/ffmpeg2theora output processing
- (OS X) NSMallocException allocating 32 bytes for CFString
- (all) bulk sql manager errors due to incorrect exception handling
- (all) Infinite recursion in threading.py
- (all) implement test skipping
- (all) upgrade to libtorrent 0.15
- (all) httpauthtools crashes on invalid input provided by server
- (all) context menu reorganization
- (all) prefpanel textbox entries behave poorly
- (all) sidebar overhaul
- (all) When to resume
- (all) add "Add a Watched Folder" menu item to Sidebar menu
- (all) fix fastresume data saving
- (all) crash opening preferences, can't determine number of cpus
- (all) --failfast support for unit tests
- (all) feedparser dies if entry has thumbnail, but no enclosures
- (all) fingerprint has been MR 1.1 for years
- (all) Support all OGG related mime types and file extensions
- (all) Miro should treat HTTP and HTTPS YouTube URLs equally
- (all) description should never say "Local Files:"
- (OS X) line break in pasted text makes podcast subscription fail
- (all) miro doesn't handle HTTP 100 Continue for posts
- (all) 'Ok' not OK!
- (Windows) Playing files without association externally gives exception
- (all) Crash when feed points to a non-existing file on network share
- (all) change default main window size
- (all) MiroMovieData.exe crashes
- (all) beta channel
- (all) remove "podcast can't load" dialog
- (all) Can't save mp3 after purchasing in amazon mp3 store
- (Windows) Wont play 720p .MKV files
- (all) first time startup dialog changes
- (all) faux language