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Democracy Player

Democracy Player - 0.9.5

video RSS feed reader, downloader & player

All Time: (2.6)
Version 0.9.5: (1.0)
Selected Version: 0.9.5
Release Date: 2007-02-13
License: Beta
Downloads (version 0.9.5): 951
Downloads (all versions): 37,926
Price: Donationware

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Product Description:

Democracy Player is a free and open source internet TV / video podcast application, with a beautiful, easy to use interface. You can subscribe to any internet TV channel, including video podcasts, video RSS feeds, bittorrent feeds, and video blogs. A built-in Channel Guide lists hundreds of channels of all types, all free to subscribe to. Browse videos, download, and watch fullscreen-- all in the same application.

What's new in this version:

  • Refined interface. simpler, smoother, easier to use.
  • Share menu. New ’share’ menu on each item lets you email a video or post to Video Bomb, del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit.
  • Partial proxy support. We are halfway done with proxy support. You should be able to use Democracy Player with no problems, but you won’t be able to access the Channel Guide from within the player. You can get to the channel guide on the web here.
  • Videos stored in folders by channel. Videos that you download from video feeds will now be stored in a folder with the name of the channel. This should keep things much more organized.
  • Pause / Resume downloads. Long awaited! You can now pause and resume any download or all downloads.
  • Better BitTorrent support. BitTorrent performance is significantly improved.
  • Show seeding on torrents. In the downloading tab, you can see all the torrents you are currently seeding and you can stop them if you choose to.
  • Drop-down for auto-download. There’s a new drop-down menu on each channel that let’s you set the Auto-Download mode without going into the channel settings.
  • Thumbnail generation on OSX. On Mac, if you have downloaded a video that doesn’t have a thumbnail, we will make one automatically.
  • ‘Details’ section. Each video item has a ‘details’ button that will show you any additional information we have about the video. This includes details about torrent status, the filename of the video, the full description, etc.
  • Retry downloads on network errors. If your internet connection gets interrupted or if something else goes wrong with a download, Democracy Player will automatically retry. Very helpful.
  • Bug fixes and other little touches.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
  • QuickTime 7 or higher

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Version 0.9.5:
Overall Rating: (1.0) Features: (1.5) Support: (1.0)
Ease of Use: (1.0) Quality / Stability: (1.0) Price: Not rated (0.0)
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Democracy Player ReviewMiro is a 2 star app that could be five stars with a little TLC - Version: 1.2.4, 7/8/2008 01:17PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

mtjmac
First the pluses I like about Miro:
1. It still runs nicely under Tiger
2. It still runs nicely under older PPC hardware
3. It has a decent RSS and Torrent side to it.

But, for all of that, Miro is plagued by even the most simplest of things that
most users pull their hair out and say, "WTF?" "it CAN'T DO THAT?!?"

Here is a list of top ten things that Miro needs to make it a 5 star app:

10. Drag and Drop files directly into a Playlist.
I'm sorry, but iTunes has spoiled us, and the fact that you have to insanely drag and drop
onto the Miro icon ( no where else) and the videos then have to be "add to Library" link
checked to add, is ridiculous!! HEllo! I want to add videos that's why I d&D'd them in the fist place!

9. Organize Playlist by AlphaNumeric.
Drag six videos all correctly named and numbered into a playlist from the library,
and watch Miro freak out and put them in random order. again, c'mon....!

8. Be able to select the Playlist and just initiate playback.
Again iTunes lets you select a list, hit play, you get the list playing
in order. Paying attention yet....?

7. Be able to have the videos play one after another without remembering to set a
preference flag.

6. Ability to Syncronize Playlist Folders to content.
Add some content to a watched folder in Miro, make Miro add that content to the
matching Playlist.

5. Play all files from the start of the file, or at least give us the option.
Miro plays where you left off in a file you last played, or if the file is a stitch
together QT refrence movie, made up of say three smaller files pasted one after the other,
it picks the last stitch in the QT file and plays from there.
Hello! treat it as a new file, and play from the beginning.

4. Turn off BitTorrent and make it so we have to turn it on at first launch of the app.
It is on by default, and nothing like putting Miro on an older PPC box and watching it
choke because it's too busy trying to torrent, when you just want to set up playlists
of your own content.

3. Give us Google search instead of YouTube Search.
Miro's youtube search sucks @$$...it can't find the same file within 10 mins
of searching. Trash it, and just enable Google search within Miro.
Just like Safari, a little Google search bar that we can use to find our content
on Youtube faster and easier.

2. When You create a new Playlist, have the Playlist organize in Alpha-Numeric Order!
nothing like having a playlist called "Zebra Fun" and then create a new playlist called
"Bat-Thing Playhouse" and the "B" playlist just jumps in behind the "Z" playlist.
again, iTunes spoiled us on this.....You create a new Playlist, iTunes alpha-numeric
organizes the Playlists. Even an option click to just "Sort Playlist by Name" would
be sufficient!!!

and the #1 thing:

Make Miro play Video_TS folders on the Hard Drive!
Even if you have to incorporate VLC!!!!!!!
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Democracy Player ReviewNicely done and a suggestion to make it better - Version: 1.2.3, 4/25/2008 06:19AM PST

summerstormpictures
Fairly simple and it's nice to have a sort of ''old fashioned'' way to just browse through a bunch of available channels and subscribe to a bunch of stuff I might find interesting.

Suggestion: Take a look at what the folks at RSS Menu are doing. They have a very nice way to keep track of RSS feeds in the menubar and a feature like that for Miro would make this even better. This is what iTunes has been lacking since the get-go and if you want to attract a Mac crowd, this sort of quick access feature would greatly enhance the Miro experience.

So far so good and I'm going to let this thing run all the time to see how it fits into my daily life.
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Democracy Player Troubleshooting ReportThis Download is NOT 1.2.2 it is 1.2.1 - Version: 1.2.2, 4/9/2008 11:22AM PST

Razzledazzle
After updating I clicked "check for updates" and the message was I am up to date.I can't understand whythe Developers are labeling this version 1.2.2 when it is actually 1.2.1 which was issued last month.
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