[wordup] Democracy Player

[Adam Shand]

I've been hearing about Democracy Player from various sources for a  
few months and today I actually downloaded it.  It's pretty neat and  
definitely worth checking out on a rainy afternoon if your at all  
interested in the burgeoning wealth of media that is filling up the  
internet ;)

Adam.

Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/11/democracy_player_for.html

Monday, September 11, 2006

Democracy Player for Internet TV - best release yet!

The latest version of Democracy Player, an open Internet video  
program that's as easy as a TV and as open as Firefox, has shipped  
today. This is version 0.9, the last stop on the way to a gold 1.0  
release, and it shows in the spit and polish.
Democracy Player uses free software and open protocols to let you  
subscribe to channels of video that come in over RSS (so you don't  
have to keep checking to see if anything new is up) and using  
BitTorrent (so you can download video without bankrupting the people  
who host it). It plays any video format (using VLC, an open player  
that ignores DRM and patents and plays back every format it can get  
its paws on).

The upshot is something that's almost too good to be true: an  
Internet video player that you don't need to be a geek to use -- or  
to publish for. Anyone can make a Democracy channel and you don't  
need to have a big server to push it out. Thanks to BitTorrent, your  
hosting costs don't go up whether you've got one subscriber or 10  
million.

The 0.9 release can tune in over 600 free channels being published by  
creative people all over the world. 0.9 adds support for Flash video,  
and comes (partially) translated into 30+ languages. It also supports  
drag-and-drop for individual video files, making it the only video  
player you need on your desktop. Link (Disclosure: I'm a proud member  
of the Board of Directors of Participatory Culture Foundation, the  
nonprofit that produces the Democracy Player)
posted by Cory Doctorow at 05:52:24 PM

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