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Linux Version of Democracy Player Released
clahey writes "The Participatory Culture Foundation just released Democracy Player 0.8.2 for Linux, the first beta version for Linux. It's a free software internet TV client with built in support for both RSS video podcasts and downloading using BitTorrent. It can even scrape web pages for videos. It's an excellent way to find great internet video. For example, once you've installed Democracy, make sure to check out The Postal Service - Such Great Heights on the Telemusicvision channel."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
How appropriate for an internet TV appliance article.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Never let open-source programmers decide the name of their applications!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Why should I take special care to "check out the Postal Service?"
What exactly does this bring to the table? People who had or have an interest in the band probably saw the video in 2003 when it was released. It has NOTHING to do with the software being advertised.
Perhaps if the video were mentioned in the article it would be more accepta--OH WAIT! What article? All we have is a link to the home page of this project. Okay, it's open source, and it's probably cool. Fine. Submit an article, or at least a summary that doesn't suck. This awful writeup belongs more on digg than on slashdot, in my opinion.
I've been using the democracy player under OSX and Windows for the last several versions. It also frequently crashes, often taking out its config files in the process. The bitorrent bits wreak havoc on your network connection (on OSX and WinXP). The Linux version JUST became available, but given the problems with the more "mature" platforms, I'm reluctant to inflict it on my Linux laptop...
F* off you democrats! We don't need your Democracy propaganda on Slashdot.
This player is really neat! But there are other players out there.
For example, once you've read this comment, make sure you check out Nickelback's new smash hit, "All The Right Reasons" on www.supermusicchannel.com today! And once you've done that, make sure you go to www.pepsico.com for your chance to enter a FREE sweepstakes to win more Pepsi products!
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Democracy = TV = advertising = buying things and throwing them in landfills while your society overpopulates, pollutes, and destroys all finer things for convenience. Brilliant name!
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there are separate downloads for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora? Well, ok, there are actually two different downloads for Fedora.
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And if one is running Mandriva? Suse?
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
I know its a dupe. /.ed or dugg.
Incase I was a little too subtle, it was gentle humour.
I've not seen a digg article link back to slash before and thought I would give a post like all message boards get after a being
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On running, I get a DEP prevention error. Now large sections of information are being gathered and transmitted to Microsoft!
I don't know if I'd call this advertising. Democracy Player *seems* to be a non-commercial project. The code is open, and the development model is relatively open too. I'm not quite convinced of their openness and intentions though, since their channel guide seems to be closed. If it remains closed, it's a way for them to lock-in customers, AND producers, by building up a large database of media that no one else can put into their own products. More importantly, the channel guide URL can't be changed in the software, so users can't set it to an independent channel guide that they might prefer. They have a lot of work on their plates right now though, so I'll give them a little more time to sort this all out before I judge them too harshly :)
The Ubuntu .deb has dependancy issues on Ubuntu Dapper Drake. dpkg complains of libboost-python1.33.0 being missing because Dapper use libboost-python1.33.1.
This is similar to another open-source endeavor called ACTLab TV, with which you can stream TV programs from multiple users in real-time. A story about ACTLab TV appeared about a year ago.
It is also similar to Songbird, the Itunes-like application that focuses primarily on enabling users to download DRM-free music from independent artists. Songbird was also covered recently.
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No builds of DemocracyPlayer for Mandriva. Can't install Fedora rpm on Mandriva 2005 because of unresolvable deps wrt libstdc++...
Tried to compile from source (stable, not svn), but couldn't make heads-or-tails of the README (half-done).
Anybody have any luck with non-Debian/Fedora Distros?
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If you're going to get all sanctimonious about Microsoft bashing, you could at least take the "MacroHard" reference out of your signature.
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It's pretty sad when people invest a lot of work to counter commercialism, and even choose obvious and clear names ("Democracy player", "participatoryculture.org"), and people like you still don't get it and heap sarcasm on the project.
How clearly do you need to have things spelled out for you in order for you to absorb the information? Or have you watched so many Pepsi commercials that you have just switched off completely?
Because YouTube and Google are commercial sites that host the content with commercial motives in mind and with commercial constraints on their operations. They are free right now because those companies want to grab a big chunk of market share and prevent the kind of democratic, distributed infrastructure from appearing that Democracy player is intended to give you.
Democracy player is an attempt at letting anybody host and distribute video without having YouTube or Google-like bandwidth at their disposal.
I'm sorry if you don't get why this might be important.
Maybe it will help if you think a little about IM services. The reason why we have AOL and MSN and all those other centralized commercial services that play poorly with FOSS, that are easy to listen in on, and that impose all sorts of restrictions is not technical, it's because those services managed to grab market share quickly, before a distributed IM infrastructure could take hold. If it hadn't been for that historical accident, IM would probably be more like E-mail today, with tens of thousands of interoperable hosts and open protocols.
People would like Internet video streaming to be more like E-mail services than like IM services: distributed and open.
Yes, it is funny.
The number of dependencies this thing comes with is obscene. Nice try, kids.
Because the closed-source flash components do not yet seem to have an available package for my AMD64-based Debian machine.Fooey
Democracy is just a government framework, not an economic one. And contrary to what some believe, I dont think Capitalism has to come with Democracy.
It seems as though proposed legislation would mandate some pretty nasty DRM be incorporated into broadcast streams. If that be the case, I suppose Democracy and the very idea of Participatory Culture will be finished in the USA.
I was wondering how long it would be before our representatives finally outlawed Democracy. Apparently, the day is at hand.
Video can be done well: it can challenge, stimulate, and communicate. Seeing the bloodshed in a war with your own eyes gives you a completely different perspective than reading dry, sterile words about it. The problem with video is not the medium, it's that in the past, it has only been available to people with deep pockets and matching views.
It's ironic to have you talk about "shallow and conformist" acts, because the dull reading list you give is about the shallowest and most conformist list imaginable. People should know those dusty tomes because they are part of our cultural heritage, but that anybody would fancy themselves a "revolutionary" because of it is laughable.
You do realize that users submit these things, right?
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