Miro the free and Open Source alternative to Joost

Miro

The version 1.0 of the application formerly know as Democracy player has been released. The new-born, bug fixed Miro is an improved open source video player that sets as its major objective – be better to Joost.
Miro is DRM-free and friendly to all content creators. It connects to all the popular video sharing sites like YouTube and blip.tv and has high definitions, full of content videos.
Miro could be used to search and download videos from the internet regardless of whether they are professionally produced or user-generated. It downloads via HTTP or BitTorrent. If you are rather interested in streaming videos, it converts into download streaming videos from sites like Youtube and DailyMotion.
You can install Miro from its source codes or directly from its repository on a Debian based platforms using sudo apt-get install miro. But first, you need to add the necessary repository to your apt sources list (on my Ubuntu 7.10 I didn’t find it necessary ) before carrying out the installation.
Miro could also be used as a video manager. If you want it can search your local folders for videos and get them better organized under the ”Library”.
Miro is released under GNU/GPL License.

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5 Comments;

  1. Goody
    3:17 pm on November 19th, 2007

    Easy to install and use, above all it is free and gives a damn to DRM

  2. Serti
    2:58 pm on November 20th, 2007

    What does DRM mean?

  3. Max
    3:00 pm on November 20th, 2007

    I’ve been using Joost, if you say it is better then I’ll give it a try

  4. dorkboy
    4:55 am on November 28th, 2007

    Linux user here: Miro is not anything. It rips off other open projects (VLC). It will break a lot of distros (mine). And is very heavy on the make-a-buck thing. It will die.

  5. Kanute
    11:46 am on November 28th, 2007

    Well dorkboy I don’t know for how long you’ve been into Linux or on what distro you installed it. For me it is doing quite fine and it is here to stay. Open Source apps don’t ware-out the way you think, the constantly regenerate respecting standard protocols and format. Miro is an 11 man stuff, and certainly need a hand from the Open Source community i.e. you and me to get better.

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