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Miro Public Preview 1 (0.9.8)

Mihai Asmanow   on 18 July 2007 - 09:15 · 4 comments & 2201 views

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Miro formerly ‘Democracy Player’ is an Internet video player that allows you to choose from a variety of channels, subscribe to video feeds and view them with the integrated player. It can automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels", manage them and play them. It is based on XULRunner, and is free and open source software. Miro is supported on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, and integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client, and VLC media player or Xine Media Player under GNU/Linux.

New features in Public Preview 1 0.9.8

* Keyboard shortcuts on all platforms. This should allow remote controls to be configured to control Miro.
* Improved system tray functionality on Windows, including a context menu.
* Added a new ‘report a bug’ menu item.
* Adds Veoh.com as a search engine.




Bug fixes

* Fixed behavior when maximizing on Windows (won’t cover up the taskbar).
* Smarter importing and folder watching to avoid adding audio files.
* Removed Yahoo as a search engine, since most results did not link to enclosures.
* Fixed a memory leak.
* Fixed several unicode errors.
* Fixed miscounting of new and unwatched items in folders.
* Minor UI fixes, including name changes to sidebar items and new Miro Guide logo.
* Many other small fixes.

Download: Miro Public Preview 1 0.9.8
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View: Demo Video
Link: Home Page

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(3 replies) #1 th3rEsa on 18 Jul 2007 - 10:57
Why the new name, actually?
#1.1 Jexel on 18 Jul 2007 - 11:41
I guess Democracy has its problems.

But the new name does sound a lot better...
#1.2 th3rEsa on 18 Jul 2007 - 13:39
At least, Democracy Player suggested its intention. Miro doesn't.
#1.3 Nehemoth on 18 Jul 2007 - 20:29
Quote - (th3rEsa said @ #1.2)
At least, Democracy Player suggested its intention. Miro doesn't.


Well, intentions or not it works very very fine.

I like it.

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