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Linux version of Democracy Player 'internet TV' released

getdemocracy.com — Democracy Player, the desktop video RSS downloader / viewer is finally available for Linux as of... right now! You can download torrents, search, watch fullscreen, and there's a built-in Channel Guide with more than 400 video feeds.

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  • Sagres, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Spread the word!
  • avocade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12from the announcement:
    A year ago, the Democracy Platform was only an idea: as video moves onto the internet, there needs to be an independent and open-source system that everyone can take part in.
    The alternative is grim: major media corporations see internet video as the next goldmine and are trying desperately to push people into proprietary video formats and distribution schemes.
    For truly open and independent internet TV to emerge, we need a solid infrastructure of world class open-source software. Our mission is to build those tools, and we are coming along quickly-- but we need your help to get to Democracy Player 1.0.
    We need to raise money to continue our work. We want to make the software faster, more solid, and add crucial features like one-click subscription and fullscreen controls. Can you make a monthly contribution to support our development? Recurring donations are immensely helpful: predictable income frees us up to focus on the software. We are a 501c3 organization and your donation is text-deductible.
  • rimco, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I tried their new and improved player... it wouldn't even load.
  • fakesman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It's not really a TV like experience as it's all "pull" content, to use a phrase from the 90s, but it's still really enjoyable and fun to use. Similar in function to the iTunes video podcast viewer, but Democracy gets it where Apple doesn't.
  • roflcpt3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I like their new player its MUCH more stable. This program is still in its infancy and it needs everybodies help to grow.
    • mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12how much more stable? last time i tried it, it was buggier than paris hilton's crotch.
    • AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's a pretty sweet app and I'd certainly use it a lot more if it didn't crash every other ***** time i tried to subscribe to a channel or watch a video (the only 2 things it does).
  • chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Brilliant!
  • crackhead, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I gave up on DemocracyTV for now because it completely hogged my mac mini's resources. Incredible idea, but not quite ready for primetime.

    /dugg anyway
    • TiCL, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I am running this on my P.o.S AMD machine; may be you should consider throwing your box down the garbage chute.
  • invader, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2front page after 6 comments and 82 diggs.... gotta love those algorithms :-|
  • gr8whitesavage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Is this a new version release or just a release for linux? Also, did they release it in universal binary for the intelMac crowd yet?

    I could not find those two answers on their site.
  • synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Digg-First i've heard about it but this sounds great! Whats the general consensus amongst here on the program's usability?
    • stalinvlad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On XP it works, sort of...
      As long as you wait for it to load, click what you want ONCE and wait its OK
      Bash it around and it falls over
      If it really falldown you have to delete the user profile under Document & SEttings\Appliction datadem.... etc etc

      I love it, use it every day, seems to play everything (uses VLC to play video, so only Real missing I think...)

      #MrEcho has a point, Python may be good for prototyping but this needs something a little more stable
      How about re-writing it in Fortran95? HEHEHE
    • sourbrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Will not play flv either, or at least they will not support rss feeds with .flv as content.
  • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3i've been waiting for this - thanks for the link

    The .deb:
    http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/democracy/linux/ubuntu/Democracy-0.8.2-i386-ubuntu.deb

    Install notes:
    https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/democracy/wiki/LinuxNotes
  • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Hehe i first thought it was Al Gore's political television channel..
    • trvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8that would be Current TV, which, from your comments, you have never seen.
    • Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah I watched CurrentTV when it first launched and it had nothing to do with politics. I never knew it was made by Al Gore till I looked it up on Wikipedia.
  • zeppelin06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Finally, early today I checked the site to see what the status was, then two hours later its on digg, Yes
  • alienvenom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sweet! Also, don't forget that its fully compatible with tvRSS - http://tvrss.net ! :-D
  • heresy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone have any screenshots of it on Linux?
  • dyon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tried to run it on my kubuntu breezy badger, but I got some big errors
    Too bad, it sounds really great.
  • thisisgil, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Yet another awesome GTK application - it really looks to me like KDE is heading towards it's deathbead
    • toasterwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hmm, I guess its my responsibility to say that you can run GTK applications on KDE...
      ...for those who don't know.
    • asraniel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thisisgil, sorry, but you have no idea what your talking about... but i dont want to start a kde gnome flamewar, im just saying that kde does some amazing things lately and its developing speed is extremely high (sorry, no app like kopete (gaim isnt even near the features of kopete), k3b, amarok (omg i love amarok), konqueror (well, you have firefox, which is very good, but konqueror with kio slaves is sooo cool).
      But there are also good things is gnome, im just saying that the kde applications are better for me.
    • proidiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what's w/ this desktop slamming stuff??

      i use whichever program is better for what i'm doing, regardless of whether it is a kde app or a gnome app or whatever
      in fact, it sounds like most people do that

      for example: regardless of desktop, it seems that a large majority of linux users do in fact use firefox, which i dont think technically belongs to any particular desktop environment

      gnome is very good at what it is trying to be good at
      if it weren't, it wouldn't be the default desktop of ubuntu, fedora, and debian
      gnome is very streamlined, very fast, and very efficient
      it may not have all the eye candy, but it just works
      and almost every linux distro has gtk by default even if the desktop is kde

      and, thisisgil:
      kde is certainly not near its deathbed
      some programs are glitchy at times (konqueror, arts), but some others are not (k3b, amarok)

      so stop bashing desktops
      its not like they are editors
    • mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1amarok is useless for me. All my music is on a server and is streamed via a PHP interface and amarok doesn't support streaming MP3s worth crap. It's database and voting features don't integrate at all with it.
    • proidiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1as far as i know, amarok doesn't stream mp3's at all, it is mostly just a front end
  • jbailley, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2way to rip off iTunes, blatantly uses the same graphical elements
    • proidiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3go get me itunes for linux......

      i'll still use democracy, but please, i beg you, find me itunes for linux
    • TiCL, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Boo hooo! Get outta here, you mother ***** mac-fan.
    • kleedrac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And by graphic elements you mean the same basic interface used by most video playing software for the last 8 years or so?
  • dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3cant you guys accept that this program doesnt remotely live up to its mission statement... absolutely unusable on every platform
    • wilwheaton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow. How insanely frustrating. This seems like such a great idea, but it sent me into dependency hell on my Debian machine, and though it will start up in wine, it won't show me any channels or content. I'll check back on this in a few months when it's been developed more, but right now I have to agree with dracula. It's totally unusable (for me at least.)
    • fakesman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's totally usable on OS X.
  • briguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I tried to install it on Kubuntu Dapper, but it had trouble with the libboost-python library. A dpkg --force-all installed it, but it wouldn't run. However, I can get the Windows version to run under wine. Go figure!
    • kleedrac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Go grab the libboost package from the breezy archives online and install it first ... then you don't even need the force-all option :)
  • electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I dont like democracy because they suscribe you to liberal video propaganda networks when you first install...
  • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MVR-4DkjSo

    ok, so I youtubed it real quickly for the Ubuntu group
    • intangible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is that bowling pin for smashing the screen when you get angry?
    • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not sure where I got those - guess I just like the way they look :-)

      update on using the Democracy Player on Linux - this is a short clip showing it starting up and watching diggnation

      Democracy Player Linux Diggnation

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7W33Qv-7HI
    • kleedrac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got it installed ... just can't seem to use the channel browser :P ... I get a security error ... any ideas?
  • Arch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm glad it's finally here.

    *downloads*
  • MrEcho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Way to much of a dependency hell for me, and im Gentoo.
    Something like this that needs that many dependencs needs to have a static packages.
    I dont mind running python packages, but most require to many deps.

    Untill they come out with a c++ version, or most of it done in c++, I wont be using it.
    • stalinvlad, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Hard to believe but Python is more unstable and ***** than C++
  • dainbramage559, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where do the videos download to under linux? I am using debian/ubuntu.
  • DragonNOA1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I get DEP warnings when running under XP SP2. Doen't seem to stable to me.
  • electronicmaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They should of done part of the coding in python and another part in c++
  • spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i really don't like democracy player, a lot of the stations run liberal, even socialist/communist propaganda. stick to itunes.
  • lizardbrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I prefer FireAnt. It's been out for a year and works well. They don't have Linux though - Mac and Windows only.
    http://FireAnt.tv/download

  • birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Naming a product and using the word "Democracy" is a bad idea.

    The more people use it (the word) the more people will hate it in the end. But then again... this is democracy, right?
  • mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1great, now maybe they can focus on making the windows version usable.

    great concept, especially when mixed with tvRSS, but it DEFINITELY needs work. won't someone out there please clone this app and write it efficiently?
  • drgalaxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1GREAT project. How many other non profit projects encourage people to contribute original multimedia content?

    I had no problems installing or running on Win2k (PIII 450, 384mb). Ubuntu made me install two mozilla packages but I already had most of the Python stuff.

    Without Python they would have had to basically code three different programs. Some of it is written in C++, I assume with the intention of moving more as they get their design worked out. As it stands, they separate 'platform' code and 'portable' code (https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/democracy/browser/trunk/tv).
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