I got a little notification in my Inbox today telling me that a new version of
Democracy Player is out. Version 0.8.4.1 (note to software developers: when your version numbers start to look like IP addresses, they've gotten out of hand) is available for WIndows, Mac, or Linux. The biggest improvements to the RSS-and-BitTorrent-enabled internet TV viewer from the Participatory Culture FOundation are in the stability department, but it also comes with a few new features. In particular, Democracy now pulls double-duty as a desktop video player, allowing you to play videos from your hard drive and add them to your library. Democracy is free as in speech, so
go download it already.
Tags: bittorrent, democracy, democracyplayer, dtv, linux, mac, opensource, osx, participatoryculture, pcf, rss, tv, video, windows
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Subscribe to commentsTristan PhillipsJun 22nd 2006 8:21PM
Don't blame the developers. IBM has been doing it's versioning that way for over 30 years.
But do get annoyed when developers go from v0.9 to v0.10. Now that's annoying.
richJun 23rd 2006 11:16AM
this thing is crashing left & right on my macbook pro.
some dudeJun 23rd 2006 11:49AM
By "stability" do they mean no more memory leaks and CPU hogging? I used to leave Democracy running on my mac mini and when I'd come back to it the CPU would be going at full blast, there would be no available RAM left, and Democracy was the culprit.
Great concept, though.
Yale RJun 23rd 2006 3:35PM
I will give this a try, but the old version never worked with the RSS links I got from tvrss.net. I prefer fireant.tv player. Combined with RSS feeds from tvrss.net and you have a replacement for TiVo.
Neal SafersteinJun 23rd 2006 8:50PM
This is a great concept, in concert with FEEDBURNER you can do some interesting things.
Neal Saferstein
RenovaJun 25th 2006 12:31PM
Too buggy for me. I prefer other software