Democracy Player Receives $100K Grant From Mozilla

puntloos writes "The Open Source Internet TV Platform 'Democracy' has just received a $100,000 Grant from the Mozilla Foundation. Democracy is a combination of ways to view and download media to your desktop in an intuitive way, built on top of the ever-popular VLC video player. Seth's blog has details: 'The Mozilla Board agreed to support them for the following reasons: 1. Their mission to ensure the continued rise of open source & open standards aligns with the Mozilla mission to encourage choice & innovation on the web. 2. They're building something that can have influence on the way users browse web content, rich media, and desktop UI -- and it's based on Mozilla technology. 3. PCF is another example of that leverage we are looking for...they don't have any venture backing, they're running on a very lean budget, and they continue to seek creative resources to make a big difference in the way their users access content on the Web.'"

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My suggestions for Democracy Player:

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I've been using this player for a long while now. However, it could do with some improvement:

a) It is awfully slow, especially on startup. I'm not on a slow system, and other apps will be up within a matter of seconds.
b) It isn't programmable from the command line ( --help will launch the player..)
c) No lirc support
d) No support for moving files once they've downloaded.

This all relates to my current version, which I can't check at the moment. If any of this has been improved, please excuse this post (: