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Print Story Introducing Miro, the open source video downloader/manager program
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By Linus Trollvalds (Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 10:52:58 PM EST) Miro, Internet TV, Tivo, Video, BitTorrent, TV Shows, Videos, Open Source, Free (all tags)
The Internet is full of videos to download and watch for free. Internet TV programs are becoming very popular, but most are closed source and only available for Windows. Enter Miro which is open sourced, available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux, and can use RSS feeds to download videos from popular free video channels so you can watch them later. It also uses BitTorrent and other popular download methods.

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