moodowamasaidthis

Democracy is still a relatively new app, which is being refined and polished daily.

The Channel Guide was completely reworked, and a lot of interesting content was added. You can also always propose new video feeds for inclusion in the Channel Guide in the Democracy forum. Default preloaded channels were revised as well.

Overall, a lot of severely annoying, as well as minor bugs were ironed out for 0.9.6. If you still happen to stumble upon new ones, just take a minute to report it in their bugtracker. Projects like these thrive on user generated content and feedback.

Also a lot of useful (built in srt subtitle support) and much requested features (implementation of watch folders being the most notable one) are present in 0.9.6, as the bundled Perian has been updated (it even supports mkv now) already.

Point being, should it have failed to deliver earlier on, definitely give Democracy another shot as 0.9.6 once it is released (anytime now), and help out by providing feedback if you can. Thanks already.

Not too delightful on my old iMac with only 512 MB. More RAM would definitely help, but I think it is a bit of a Ram-muncher in any case ;-)

I suppose this is the application that used to be called Democracy. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
I have just installed it and... it is great!
Go to the application's website and watch the screencast. It's very well done.
Miro's interface is very nice and everything is so easy to use. I specially like the search of movies in YouTube, Dailymotin and other websites inside the application.
Excellent!

@el_cravito: You are very much right. I updated the description.

This has now been rebranded as Miro.

I have been trying Miro and there are two little things that could make it even better:
1. When there are more than 20 videos in a search, it displays only the first 20. There's no way to access the other ones. (Or am I missing something?)
2. It would be nice if there was a field to insert the video URL (from those websites) and then play it.
Otherwise, it's excellent!

For some reason, today Miro is not able to search any videos from YouTube. (Yesterday it worked OK.)
I have tried with the other websites included in the search field (Google Video, Dailymotion, blip.tv, etc.) and they all work perfectly. Searching in YouTube gives no result. Nothing at all!

Today, July 21st 2007, Miro is able to search videos in YouTube again.
(I wonder what happenned the last two days...)

Download seems to point to the windows version...

indeed it did. Fixxored

Hmmm. Looks like I'm still getting the windows version through the d/l link...

The download link still points to the Windows version:

http://www.getmiro.com/temp/update-Miro121-windows.html

i'd like to use it, but it always hangs and bounces in the dock after installation or launching. so it doesn't even start for me :(
i know it's awesome though

Another update to miro and it still links to the Windows version. Will you puhleeeze get your shit together?

Cons:
- it's a memory hog application.
- slow and heavy since it's based on the XUL technology from Mozilla
- Not cocoa!
- has some weird issues with leopard

Pros:
- unlike iTunes it also enable you to watch and subscribe youtube channels
- has a very nice portal for browsing and picking up your favorite channels. I wish apple store has something pretty slick like this

For those who like French TV, it has a stream of the Zapping de Canal+: a very good daily best of French TV:
feed://www.rss-one.com/rss-3950-Canal-Plus---Le-Zapping

although xul & python based, this application is a fantastic idea which is beautifully implemented. there are a small handful of minor interface bugs, but it generally fits in nicely with the look, feel & function(s) of os x and overall, miro is pretty damn stable & quick. i mostly use it as a conduit for educational and news related videos/video feeds, but its built-in guide/browser offers one many different types of content as well... and if you can't find it in there, you can always add external feeds to your channel list as well.

i switched over to miro from joost after their builds started getting hefty unstable and the joost team announced their intention to switch over to a flash/browser-based interface. i don't regret this one bit at all though. after all, joost was not an os x "native" program either. plus, knowing that i am using a community developed, open-source application which supports a much wider array of codecs, including of-course, open-source formats, (not to mention its integrated library feature, which allows one to access local videos sitting on their hard-drive as well) makes me feel "that much better".

i would not hesitate to recommend this program to anyone interested, and am looking forward to seeing it undergo further development.

Change log is here.
(This information hasn't been copied to iusethis's version history.)