{"id":221,"date":"2009-02-11T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:53:20","slug":"miro-20-the-best-video-podcast-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/miro-20-the-best-video-podcast-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Miro 2.0 – The Best Video Podcast Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Participatory Culture Foundation<\/a> just released version 2.0 of Miro<\/strong>, an open-source web video application (formerly known as Democracy Player).<\/p>\n

If you’re not familar with Miro, it basically allows you to download and categorize web videos.\u00a0 Sure, it has a stable of competitors (like iTunes<\/a>, Boxee<\/a> and VideoDrive<\/a>), however, Miro 2.0 is available for both Windows and Mac users…and…really stands out when it comes to video podcasts.<\/p>\n

For example, with it’s new, elegant interface, a couple clicks is all it takes to instantly find or subscribe to your favorite video podcasts, either through the Miro Guide or by entering the feed URL to a podcast:<\/p>\n

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Once you’ve found or selected a video podcast feed, Miro will automatically download new episodes for that podcast once they become available.\u00a0 It also allows you to playback the videos in full-screen:<\/p>\n

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“So what” you may be wondering…iTunes already allows you to do this too.\u00a0 And you’re right, it does.\u00a0 However, Miro 2.0 just seems to do it a little more elegantly.\u00a0 In addition, Miro organizes all videos on your computer (not just iTunes compatiable videos), which can be a big time-saver if you have lots of videos on your hard drive in lots of different formats (like me).<\/p>\n

One thing Miro won’t do however, is transfer those videos to a portable media player…you’ll need to stick with an app like iTunes if you want to do that.<\/p>\n

So in a nutshell, if you subscribe to a lot of video podcasts…prefer to watch them directly on your computer…and are less than thrilled with the iTunes interface…then Miro 2.0 is definitely a free application you’ll want to check out.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, it’s slick, simple and does video organization very well.\u00a0 In fact, I subscribed to several new video podcasts within the first 10 minutes of playing with it…just because, well, it was kind of fun.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Miro 2.0<\/strong> and try it out yourself by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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