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Democracy Player is 0.9.2 and Growing Up Fast

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-better-all-the-time dept.

Dean writes "Democracy Player, the open source answer for RSS video aggregation/playback, has just made it to 0.9.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you haven't tried Democracy Player for a while, it's time to try it again. The application is more responsive and stable, uses less memory, integrates Bittorrent, and can now play Flash videos (including stuff from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, etc). Democracy takes all the hassle out of finding and watching videos from your favorite sources." In many ways, Democracy is the template of what I'd like to see out of Apple's upcoming iTV. Although my guess is that it will be more like MythTV- only for people willing to put in the effort.

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  1. Re:XUL versus My Memory by MP3Chuck · · Score: 4, Informative

    Enter XULRunner. Democracy Player uses it ... when FF and TB will is another story, I suppose. I guess since their development is ahead of XULRunner's curve (XULR is based on FF 1.5.0.4's codebase), it'll be a while.

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  2. Re:Six codecs -- all free? by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 3, Informative

    There may be some official flash codec from Adobe that you have to pay for, I don't know, but there are definitely other ways to play flash in quicktime.

    Quicktime itself can already play older non-video flash presentations. And the flash video codec that Democracy player is asking you to let it install is Perian, an open source project that integrates libavcodec and a bunch of other video related OSS libraries into a Quicktime component.

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  3. Re:XUL versus My Memory by 2sheds · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the XULRunner FAQ:

    Q. When will Firefox be based on XULRunner?
    A. See the XULRunner roadmap. This is scheduled for Firefox 3 (XULRunner 1.9), in the first quarter of 2007.

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  4. Re:Flash Videos? Hassle to View? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Informative

    The benefit of Democracy is that it saves bandwidth for the producers given that it uses bittorrent. Also, it offers channels via RSS, such as a particular show that you like, so if something new comes down the RSS feed, Democracy can automatically download it and add it to your media library. Once it puts the video file on your computer, you can reencode it to other formats if you like.

  5. Re:Open Source ... by p80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/democracy/sr c/

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