It has been awhile since I have mentioned Miro. It was originally called Democracy Player. It is a search engine for video that also downloads and plays it. Version 2.0 is now available.
Some of the features of Micro 2.0
Watch Fullscreen
Since Miro works so well for HD content, you’ll find lots of video that looks beautiful in fullscreen on even the largest displays.
Resume from Where You Stopped
Miro will remember where you stopped watching a video and will start at that point when you play it again.
Play Almost Anything
Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
One After Another
Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for all the key playback commands makes it easy to configure a remote control.
NEW in Miro 2.0
All-New Interface A beautiful, completely redesigned interface makes using Miro easier than ever.
Video Playlists Bring together your favorite videos into a playlist.
Move Your Library
Running out of space? Miro can move your video collection to any location on your system, such as an external hard drive.
Channel and Playlist Folders Group your Feeds by topic by creating folders. Do the same for playlists.
Bring Your Videos Together
When you install Miro, you can search you computer to find all your video files and list them in your Miro Library.
Thumbnail Creation
Miro will create a thumbnail for any video that doesn’t have one.
Two of the biggest improvements in Miro 2.0 are under the hood, including:
* Better performance– Miro starts up faster, uses less memory, and is more responsive.
* Faster torrent downloads — Miro incorporates the latest version of libtorrent for world-class torrent download speeds.
Play in Separate Window
Miro now lets you watch any video in a separate window, so you can browse and download while you watch.
Simple Disk Management
Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.
Auto-Expire
After you watch a video on a channel, it will stick around for a few days and then delete itself. You can choose to keep it permanently if you like.
Pause / Resume
Easily pause and resume any individual download, all downloads in one channel, or all Miro downloads.
Individual Video Downloads
A menu item lets you paste in individual video URLs to start downloads. Miro automaticaly grabs your last copied URL.
It is free and open source, so try it out by downloading it here:
http://www.getmiro.com/
