Launched ok, then it asked if it should search for video files in my home folder (or subfolders thereof) with ONE option to hunt elsewhere. I have several HDs, with videos scattered all over. I couldn't say just "search all my Harddisks" that would be too easy. First star lost. OK I just said "don't search" and proceeded to the main window.

Next thing, the progress spinner and irritating alerts that it was searching for video data in the file blahblahblah.jpg. Hello! I said DON'T search, and if you don't know where your own resources are, there's something very wrong. Another star lost. Next comes an alert that it's searching for video data in a file called "button1.gif" or some such - wtf? There goes another star.

This must be a pretty stupid program if it doesn't realise that .jpg and .gif files do not contain video.

OK perhaps animated GIF could be shoehorned into the 'video' definition, but if I wanna look at animated GIFs I wouldn't use Democracy player if it has to "search" for video data in them, especially when QuickTime Player can open them without any fuss.

But all that is moot. What the hell was it doing 'searching' for video data in files which I know nothing about? If those files are installed by the program, I would expect the program would not have to 'search' them. Just bizarre.

Next thing that happened, during this odd 'searching for video data in the file button1.gif' phase was that the app crashed.

The system asked me if I wanted to reopen, which I did, with the same procedure occuring all over again. I'm running out of stars here. The only thing it scores on is price, and then again, my time is valuable, so given that I was able to view exactly ZERO videos with this thing, and just ended up wasting time, I can't even award it more than 'neutral' there either.

Very poor.