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Linux Version of Democracy Player Released
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CowboyNeal
on Thu Apr 27, 2006 07:22 PM
from the tune-in-turn-up dept.
from the tune-in-turn-up dept.
clahey writes "The Participatory Culture Foundation just released Democracy Player 0.8.2 for Linux, the first beta version for Linux. It's a free software internet TV client with built in support for both RSS video podcasts and downloading using BitTorrent. It can even scrape web pages for videos. It's an excellent way to find great internet video. For example, once you've installed Democracy, make sure to check out The Postal Service - Such Great Heights on the Telemusicvision channel."
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No video? (Score:2, Funny)
(http://12.183.160.165/~ccfreak2k/index.html | Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @12:11PM)
How appropriate for an internet TV appliance article.
What's that saying again... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://anticirc.coconia.net/)
Re:What's that saying again... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's that saying again... (Score:5, Funny)
Nice Summary! (Score:2, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 30, @01:08PM)
What exactly does this bring to the table? People who had or have an interest in the band probably saw the video in 2003 when it was released. It has NOTHING to do with the software being advertised.
Perhaps if the video were mentioned in the article it would be more accepta--OH WAIT! What article? All we have is a link to the home page of this project. Okay, it's open source, and it's probably cool. Fine. Submit an article, or at least a summary that doesn't suck. This awful writeup belongs more on digg than on slashdot, in my opinion.
Re:Nice Summary! (Score:5, Insightful)
Why should I take special care to "check out the Postal Service?"
What exactly does this bring to the table? People who had or have an interest in the band probably saw the video in 2003 when it was released. It has NOTHING to do with the software being advertised.
Hey now, calm down now buddy. I'll see if I can help shed some light on the problem. Here's a quote from the summary: It can even scrape web pages for videos. It's an excellent way to find great internet video. For example... It then goes on to talk about the Postal Service video you mentioned. They were using this specific video as an example of how it can scrape web pages for videos, one of the features of this video player. A specific example given to display the features of a product seems very apropos to me.
Perhaps if the video were mentioned in the article it would be more accepta--OH WAIT! What article? All we have is a link to the home page of this project. Okay, it's open source, and it's probably cool. Fine. Submit an article
Since when are articles the only thing you can link to in a slashdot submission? It's an open source video player with (apparently) tons of cool features with its first released linux version. It sounds interesting and slashdot worthy. And, how else could you get any more information about an open source program other than linking to it's web site? Probably better than a press release or article.
Unfortunately, it's still buggy as hell... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unfortunately, it's still buggy as hell... (Score:5, Insightful)
You Blasted Democrats! (Score:3, Funny)
slashvertising? (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday September 21 2006, @07:20AM)
For example, once you've read this comment, make sure you check out Nickelback's new smash hit, "All The Right Reasons" on www.supermusicchannel.com today! And once you've done that, make sure you go to www.pepsico.com for your chance to enter a FREE sweepstakes to win more Pepsi products!
The name is accurate (Score:1, Insightful)
(http://www.anus.com/zine | Last Journal: Monday November 27 2006, @11:44PM)
Does it mean anthing that... (Score:2)
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPnJ-FXTmg)
And if one is running Mandriva? Suse?
Dependancy issues on Dapper (Score:3, Informative)
(http://thepiratecove.org/)
Can't install on Mandriva or compile source (Score:1)
Tried to compile from source (stable, not svn), but couldn't make heads-or-tails of the README (half-done).
Anybody have any luck with non-Debian/Fedora Distros?
geez (Score:1)
Waaaiiiit (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Monday February 03 2003, @08:59PM)
Will Democracy be against the law in the US? (Score:2, Interesting)
I was wondering how long it would be before our representatives finally outlawed Democracy. Apparently, the day is at hand.
Re:Watch out slashdot, you've been dugg... (Score:1)
Incase I was a little too subtle, it was gentle humour.
I've not seen a digg article link back to slash before and thought I would give a post like all message boards get after a being
Re:NOT FUNNY (Score:1)
(http://weill.org/ | Last Journal: Saturday October 01 2005, @01:18PM)
If you're going to get all sanctimonious about Microsoft bashing, you could at least take the "MacroHard" reference out of your signature.
Re:more like Democrack Player (Score:5, Insightful)
Democracy player is an attempt at letting anybody host and distribute video without having YouTube or Google-like bandwidth at their disposal.
I'm sorry if you don't get why this might be important.
Maybe it will help if you think a little about IM services. The reason why we have AOL and MSN and all those other centralized commercial services that play poorly with FOSS, that are easy to listen in on, and that impose all sorts of restrictions is not technical, it's because those services managed to grab market share quickly, before a distributed IM infrastructure could take hold. If it hadn't been for that historical accident, IM would probably be more like E-mail today, with tens of thousands of interoperable hosts and open protocols.
People would like Internet video streaming to be more like E-mail services than like IM services: distributed and open.
Re:NOT FUNNY (Score:1)
(http://frankbynum.com/)
AMD64 (Score:2)
(http://phorm.phormix.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 19 2003, @12:08PM)
Re:schwat? the postal service? (Score:2)
(http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/ | Last Journal: Friday January 20 2006, @06:46PM)