- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: October 10, 2006
- Total Downloads: 182,266
- Downloads last week: 3,328
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 157 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Providing one-stop shopping for all your video needs, Democracy Player deserves much of the praise that's been heaped upon it.
The concept is brilliant, yet simple: create a video player that can subscribe to and download video podcasts while comprehensively managing your saved videos. On the face of it, this might sound like iTunes, but DP's sharing component is an essential aspect of the program. DP has always been geared toward video and it shows in the program's design. When you launch the app, a left sidebar hosts a folder tree for managing your videos. The central pane does double duty for viewing vids and searching for new ones. The bottom hosts a search box for parsing through Google, YouTube, Yahoo, and others, a video control panel, and a volume control.
Features include full torrent support, so you can download and view torrents in the same app; folder watching to manage only the hard drive folders you specify for new videos; resumable playback; channel surfing, which organizes video feeds by topic; video sharing and hosting; and assistance in creating videos.
Soon to be renamed Mira, the latest update to DP is essentially Release Candidate 1 and it performs and behaves as such, behaving pretty darn close to a fully functional player.
Publisher's description
From Participatory Culture :You've probably watched hundreds of tiny videos on Websites. It's tedious. Democracy Player makes video on the Internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of Internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes Internet TV. It's free and open for everyone to watch and to broadcast.
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User reviews of Democracy Player 0.9.0.2
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.0.2
Pros: Good,it's a diamond in the rough.
Cons: Needs a bath!Open source or another software company that uses the idea,if its going to be used on a large scale it needs its initial content cleaned up big time and some deals made with the big players.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.0.2
"Awesome concept, but still half-baked"
Pros: Smooth interface, useful features, easy access to fresh and popular content.
Cons: A huge memory hog, it keeps sucking up RAM until your system says 'uncle'. Wait for 1.0, folks, otherwise your experience with this version might sour you on it for good.
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