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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 28, 2006
- Total Downloads: 182,266
- Downloads last week: 3,328
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 153 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 :Democracy Player makes video on the Internet less frustrating and more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of Internet video, download videos, and watch them full screen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes Internet TV.
Version 0.9.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Democracy Player 0.9.2
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.2
Pros: Fast performance. Its news videos, personal videos, artists videos, adult themed videos, music videos. Its reasonably well organized. It is definitely worth trying to see if you like it. Free.
Cons: Some videos are very low resolution.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.2
Pros: I like how it deletes the videos you've downloaded after 5 days unless you save them- great for conserving precious disk space
Cons: The interface is a bit confusing sometimes
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.2
Pros: Simple, fast, intuitive. Sort of like Tivo for a computer. Getting better all the time (new versions get released often).
Cons: Simcityman's review sorta sucked -- Democracy isn't perfect (still some bugs), but it's a really awesome way to get videos (in the same way an RSS newsreader is perfect for reading blogs).
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.2
Pros: Democracy Play can play any video, let's you organize, download torrents, download RSS feeds, etc. It's everything you want in a very elegant package.
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.2
Cons: AFTER I INSTALLED IT MY MCAFEE STARTED TO GO CRAZY AND IT SAID IT HAD A BUG AND I COULDN'T OPEN IT
STAY AWAY
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