Miro Media Player
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| developer | Participatory Culture Foundation |
| Current version | 6.0 (April 16, 2013) |
| operating system | Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and GNU / Linux |
| programming language | python |
| category | P2PTV |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
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The Miro Media Player (formerly DTV or Democracy Player ) is a free P2PTV program developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation . It can automatically download videos from subscribed channels, thus functioning as a video podcast reader. The Miro Media Player runs on different platforms (e.g. on Mac , Windows , GNU / Linux ), is free software and uses a feed reader and a BitTorrent client based on libtorrent . To play the media files under Windows and GNU / Linux he uses VLC or xine , whereby under GNU / Linux GStreamer is also possible. On the other hand, Mac OS X uses QuickTime . Miro was programmed primarily in Python .
Miro allows you to search for videos from nine video portals. The search hits are displayed as a list, each with an image and a one to five line description and can be clicked to download if desired. In the case of relevant hits with selective search term combinations, such a search can be saved as a channel ("Channel") so that new videos that result in the future with the given search terms can be automatically or manually obtained as with any "real TV channel" without running the search again and with the old hits.
The Miro Guide lists 7441 free channels (as of October 2009) in various categories.
Miro is one of the few playback programs that offers the option of downloading podcasts using the Bit torrent process.
With version 4.0, Miro offers not only a revised interface but also the integration of the amazon MP3 store and Google Play store .
Malware
Miro installs malware without permission. The developers admit to finance themselves with it: "This is one of the primary ways we fund continued Miro development."
Web links
- Official website
- Participatory Culture Foundation ( English )
- evulgo.org - Blog with news about the Miro project and a presentation of certain channels
Individual evidence
- ↑ Debian package miro
- ↑ Miro Guide
- ↑ Miro 4: The "Open Source iTunes" for Android users
- ↑ Vicky K: Horrendous add-on Which Caused crashes and corruption . February 29, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2012 .;
- ↑ Vicky K: Miro 3.5 Install Identifies zugo-silent.exe As Malware . November 16, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2012 .;
- ↑ Vicky K: Miro gives you avg search engine malware in browser. . August 6, 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2012 .;
- ↑ Bug 15208 - Miro setup closes and restarts Firefox without notification . Bugzilla. November 14, 2010. Accessed on March 23, 2014. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
