Tag: DEMOCRACYPLAYER

Okay, we know that Democracy was supposed to be renamed Miro when it hit version 1.0. But Miro 0.9.8 is out now. Whoo hoo. Technically, this is a technical preview of Miro. But as with most of the beta releases of Democracy, it's already a pretty full featured video aggregator/player. While new programs like Joost and Babelgum aim to provide a peer-to-peer streaming video experience, Miro lets you ...

Democracy Player 0.9.6 is out, and the open source media player has added a host of new features for finding and watching videos on the internet or stored on your computer. Here's some of the new features: Democracy Player 0.9.6 fixes some compatibility issues with Windows Vista. Folder Watch monitors selected folder on your PC. When you add videos to that folder they show up in your ...

Sketchy legal issues aside, I'm a big fan of the "poor-man's TiVo," i.e. downloading TV shows via BitTorrent. There are a lot of ways to automate this--many BitTorrent clients can read and filter RSS feeds, and there are even stand-alone apps dedicated to the task. Lifehacker introduces us to yet another method, using the awesome open source app Democracy. Democracy, of course, has built-in ...

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 ...

We mentioned DTV a couple of times before, and what caught my eye wasn't another video content aggregator, it was the surrounding toolset that had been developed to fill that aggregator with usable content (more on this in a moment). DTV is now Democracy player, and there is now a Windows version. Just like the iPod had to become Windows compatible to achieve critical mass, perhaps now Democracy ...