Thread: Sharing

As I mentioned in the beginning, Miro is pretty much geared towards being a Web 2.0application. It has wonderful support for sharing. Every channel and video has an e-mail button to quickly send a link to a friend, links to post to Digg, Reddit, deLicio.us, etc. Apart from this, you can even export your feeds as an OPML file and your friends can import it into their Miro or any other feed reader. Miro also provides assistance in creating and publishing video channels. I think another real nice feature to have, would be IMDB and flixster integration, as going forward, more and more people will be using Miro to watch and manage their movie collection.



For all the wonderful stuff Miro does, there's still one major shortcoming, which is its inability to synch iPod/iTouch/ iPhone, when the main idea behind podcasts/vodcasts is to play the content on these sorts of devices. Among the answers to FAQ, it is said that they will be working on this in the future versions, but when will that become 'present' is what I wonder. In the meantime, Banshee's latest version already supports video, video podcasts, and syncing videos to iPod as well! Maybe it's time for me to give Banshee a spin?

However, all said and done, I'm hoping that as more and more people start using Miro, this requirement will be quickly addressed. With a tagline like "Free and open source, because open media matters," I would really like to see this one succeed.
As for the 'present', the more I use Miro, the more I find it to be the best tool to organise and manage my video collection. Guess it won't surprise anyone if I say it has become my default video player, replacing VLC and MPlayer.