Miro is the new name for the awesome Internet TV player previously known as “Democracy Player.” Miro is easy: just pick some channels — video podcast feeds — and Miro will download all the video from your channels. Miro downloads with Bittorrent, meaning that there’s never a problem with popular sites going down because they’re clobbered by too many requests.

Miro also grabs YouTube videos, and has access to more HD content than any other source online or off.

Miro is created by a charitable foundation called the Participatory Culture Foundation, an organization that also makes complimentary, free packages like Broadcast Machine (for publishing your own video channels) and VideoBomb (like Digg, but for video). The foundation pays programmers to improve the technology, and it’s entirely free to use and improve.

Miro is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows >>>

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