We’re currently working on a redesign for the iPlayer Library to make it simpler and easier to use, so I’ve been doing some research into other video manager applications and stumbled into this application called Miro. It’s basically the latest version of what used to called ‘Democracy’ and is all cross platform and open source – it also uses the open source VLC player which seems to play just about every video file under the sun (MPEG2, WMV, Quicktime etc) …
It allows you to download and keep videos from many video-hosting sites such as YouTube, Daily Motion and has a great guide of video podcasts including lots of HD content. Download it here
