| Miro | |
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Miro 0. 9. 9 running under Windows, showing the Miro guide in the main window. |
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| Developed by | Participatory Culture Foundation |
| Stable release | 1.2.3 (April 23, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none (n/a) [+/−] |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Internet television |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://getmiro.com/ |
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Miro is based on XULRunner, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License. XULRunner is a Runtime environment developed by the Mozilla Foundation for providing a common back-end for XUL applications Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified [2] It is written in python and GTK+.
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Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels", manage them and play them. The application is designed to mesh with other PCF products such as Video Bomb, a social tagging video website, and the Channel Channel, a TV guide for internet television. TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about television programming
Miro integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client, and a media player (VLC media player under Windows, QuickTime under Mac OS X or Xine Media Player under Linux). RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized In computing a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text xine (officially ksin is a Multimedia playback engine for Unix-like Operating systems released under the GNU General Public License.