Open-source Democracy Player relaunches as Miro
The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) has renamed and relaunched its open-source television platform in hopes of offering an "open, mass medium of online television." What was once known as Democracy Player is now Miro, which functions in mostly the same ways as Democracy Player but with a number of improvements and updates. The PCF team said that the name change was intended to reduce confusion over Democracy Player's affiliation (or lack thereof) with political videos, and that even the web site has been redesigned to give a more of a community feel to the open player.
Miro currently offers client software for Windows (Vista, XP, or 2000), Mac OS X, and various flavors of Linux (such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo). The player is based on the open-source VLC player, which is compatible with nearly every file type under the sun and can download clips through HTTP, RSS, or BitTorrent. Users can subscribe to any number of channels available through its own channel browser or can add RSS-based channels manually. For example, I added an entire channel dedicated to the very entertaining video blogs of a girl I stalk on YouTube.
Also: Miro - The “Firefox” of Media Players
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