Free and open source tool #12: Miro
February 26th, 2008 | Published in Open Source
Miro used to be called “Democracy Player”. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. There are channels for everything. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters. I get Democracy Now, ABC politics, the Webb Alert (a daily geek news headlines show,) Bill Moyers Journal, and lots of others. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel.
It’s a pretty amazing tool. And it makes disseminating your organizational videos easy as well. It’s cross-platform (available on all platforms) and works really well (the old player was a bit buggy, but those have been really smoothed out, of late.)
It is, I imagine, what the future of television will be.
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