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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: February 14, 2007
- 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 0.9.5 includes interface refinements and an update to VLC Player 0.8.6, among other new features and fixes.
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User reviews of Democracy Player 0.9.5
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 153 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.5
Pros: It (kind of) plays video files
...in jerk-o-rama style
Cons: Umm... 100% CPU usage most of the time, even to sort out file order?
Is not a bad concept, is just that it needs time to evolve.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.5
Pros: Good idea.
Cons: Truth is people want something that they can turn on has 1000s of channels and is as easy to use as a TV.Still too goofy.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.5
"Actually, there is no spyware."
Pros: Maybe your spyware detector is broken?
This is an open source project (like Firefox) and is developed by a non-profit organization (The Participatory Culture Foundation).
I can guarantee that there is NO spyware in this software.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.5
Cons: loaded up my computer with spyware, luckily spysweeper which i paid for caught it before it did any damage.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Democracy Player 0.9.5
Pros: Nice interface, clearly shows what is downloading, what is new, what has been watched, etc. I like the new download folder organization w 9.5
Cons: Channel Guide, where the circles never stop turning, comes up very slowly, going from page to page on Channel Guide is slow also. Does not seem to put the file extensions onto some of the downloaded files. Big memory leaker, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, much worse than FireFox.
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