Sometimes, the product name might influence the product fate. When Democracy Player has been first released in February 2006, the software name drew negative responses from many Internet and computer users. Americans associated the name with standard image of yet another left wing media project, and to the rest of the world it was, for some reason, being associated with the Bush administration policy. Under massive consumer pressure, the player was recently renamed to neutral Miro.

Miro is an open-source free Internet television application, supported on major Operating Systems as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It can automatically download videos from RSS-based “channels”, manage them and play them with descent quality. 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. It integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client, and media players (VLC media player under Windows, QuickTime under Mac OS X or Xine Media Player under Linux).

Among program prominent features:

1. Miro’s provides perfectly organized list of over 1,500 podcast channels, with content filtered by popularity, editor picks, genre, tags, and language.
2. Miro has a built-in search function which accesses content from YouTube, Veoh, Google Video, Blogdigger, Revver, DailyMotion, and Blip.tv, with possibility of the following clips downloading.
3. Miro is compatible with most common video file types: DivX, Xvid, QuickTime, WMV, and AVI.
4. Miro has a built-in BitTorrent client.
Download the software from authors’ Web Site: http://www.getmiro.com/

Additional Reading:
http://www.last100.com/2007/07/17/democracy-player-is-dead-long-live-miro/
http://www.webtvwire.com/miro-open-source-video-aggregator-i…