I love Miro: free, open source Internet video player that downloads videos from RSS-based channels

I have been using Miro for the past 2 weeks and if you are in the need for lots of videos on specific subjects, and if you don't need to transfer them anywhere, Miro sure wins, hands-down.  Miro's description says it all: "A free, open source Internet TV and video player that can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels" - and that's what it does, indeed.

Because I do a lot of research on the future of technology, media, communications etc I try to watch a lot of videos from some very smart people (you know... proudly found elsewhere and all that...); and so far it's been a pain getting them from 20+ video channels, many of which don't offer downloads. Now, with Miro, I can search 8 or so providers, from youtube to google and blip (see below), in one place, and with one click download them. That made my day, plus I can also cue up videos for automatic downloading. Okay, so sometimes the links are dead and some videos can't be retrieved, but it certainly beats fishing around the web for the stuff that I want to see.  Give it a try. And yes, I do have a Miro channel too (you guessed it).

Wikipedia adds: Miro (previously known as Democracy Player and DTV^[1]) is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.