The software is absolutely free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Since it uses the popular VLC Media Player, it can play virtually all video formats from MOV to Windows Media to iPod MP4.
And here's a little known but extremely feature of Democracy Player that makes it unique among all other media players - you can use Democracy to search or download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Blip.tv, Revver and many other video sharing websites.
You can also pause and resume video downloads. The videos can also be saved on del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit right from within the Democracy interface.
Democracy will automatically watch for new videos tagged with your keyword -- when a new video is found, it'll be automatically downloaded to your computer.
Download Democracy Player 0.9.5.2
Reader Comments
Just an FYI, I just downloaded and tried the player and was very disappointed. Downloaded 3 different videos and the audio played but not the video. Also, one of THEIR pre-installed feeds would not load and kept bringing up error messages.
A word to all software developers out there. You have one chance to get the average user. It must work properly right out of the gate. People do not have time to tweak their machine endlessly like tech geeks do. I want stuff to work, the first time.
Not the least bit impressed with Democracy Player. I'm using windows vista, but that's no excuse because there was plenty of time to get ready
Written on 24/2/07 1:40 AM
The sound is so bad, isn't good enough for me to kick off Windows Media Player yet.
Written on 24/2/07 3:38 PM
brilliant idea of watching videos offline. Though I had tried videodownloader in mozilla but it did't support all formats.
Written on 24/2/07 8:30 PM
co-incidentally I am using the same core codebase as democracy to build my offline video viewer for my website (KONKAN TV). But developing it is a real challenge because of the dependent components and the extremely complex compilation platform. Well, the democracy folks also have announced a "bounty" for anyone who could help build democracy using opensource tools. I am not after that bounty, but maybe some of your readers could take that task upon themselves. the bounty is pretty good... 50K USD !!!
My OFFLINE video viewer can be considered a democracy-fork, because mine uses the same base protocols.. but not RSS feeds... and the videos are pooled into a inbuilt DB (sleepycat) rather than files. I shall update you as soon as I release my video player (how should i put it, my offline video viewer in BETA right now.. and am in the last leg of testing...), and maybe you could take a look at the features I have thrown into it at that juncture.
Written on 24/2/07 9:56 PM
Video doesn't play on Vista. It's a problem with the VLC plugin, and there's no work-around that I know of. The developers identified the problem months ago and it still isn't fixed. Democracy is completely useless on Vista.
Written on 26/3/07 4:49 AM
Democracy player does not show video on Vista. I want to know if I should wait for the next release of Democracy Player or I should get rid of Vista and install Linux instead. Right now I am downloading the files through Democracy player but watching them on iTunes/Quicktime. Though a bit roundabout, it is working well for me. Let me know by email to axmukher at hotmail dot com.
Written on 12/5/07 11:53 AM