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.'"

Comments

Great package needs more content

[monopole]

A really great package, but it needs more channels and better search capabilities. And a transcode module for transferring content to iPods, PSPs and Palms.

Sounds great!

[jshriverWVU]

I'm anxious to see how this develops. My only concern with the "coming Internet-TV age" is the whole bandwidth throttling. What's to start some start-up from getting TV feeds like any cable company does and creating an internet-TV station.

That with devices like Myth Boxes, and the media center boxes. I can imagine people giving up TV completely and just keeping their broadband connection. I know I would.

Re:Sounds great!

[misleb]

That with devices like Myth Boxes, and the media center boxes. I can imagine people giving up TV completely and just keeping their broadband connection. I know I would.

Already there. No cable. No antenna. Just a Myth box running torrentflux (web front end for Bittorrent).

-matthew

Re:Sounds great!

[Daengbo]

same setup for me. I'm living in S. Korea now, so there's very little on cable that I want to watch. We have a file server with TorrentFlux and MythTV on it. A great system, and surprisingly easy to set up this time. On Ubuntu 7.04, just install the special packages for frontend and backend and everything else is automatic. NVidia TVout completes the picture. Snazzy. I'm not going to use Democracy Plaer because I already have the set up, but I looked it over and sent a link to the webite to a couple of friends who aren't quite as geeky.

Re:Sounds great!

[misleb]

I didn't really "get" Democracy player. I browsed some of the channels and stuff and it seemed like mostly worthless content. I guess it is meant more for managing your own content? i dunno. i wouldn't know where to get it.

-matthew

Re:My suggestions for Democracy Player:

[vunzzz]

You might have a look at ToxTox. This is a Media Browser for your TV (full screen). You can fully control it with a remote and Lirc. Like Democracy it's completly open and free and multi platform. Although the development started only recently it's worth a try. It's just a better experience than using a desktop app for watching your favorite shows. See the ToxTox weblog

I used it

[twice1109850]

doesn't prominently give credit where due - vlc
sits uploading torrents without asking, saves bloat files everywhere, did I mention bloat?
and RRL [type "boingboing.net"] gave it props so it must suck.

first twice1109850 comment.. I can see this account going downhill