Monday, February 19, 2007

Democracy Player gets even better

Democracy Player, the killer free Internet TV app, is edging closer to 1.0. The new version fixes a ton of little bugs and cleans up the UI even more. Democracy is like iTunes for Internet TV, without the DRM. Just tell it what channels you like (or pick from a huge menu, or your favorite YouTube or Google Video keywords) and it will download a steady stream of programming with BitTorrent. Democracy uses VLC to play back video, so it doesn't matter whether you're trying to view a QuickTime, WMV, or plain MPEG (or DivX, or FLV, or whatever...) -- it just works. And because Democracy has BitTorrent built it, it's cheap and easy to publish your own Democracy channel -- the more popular your channel gets, the cheaper it is to serve and the faster your fans get your video.

Democracy runs with equal ease on Linux, MacOS and Windows. It's solid, easy to use, and free. (Democracy also has a new Ubuntu repository for fetching binaries of the latest versions)


Refined interface. simpler, smoother, easier to use.

Share menu. New ’share’ menu on each item lets you email a video or post to Video Bomb, del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit...

Pause / Resume downloads. Long awaited! You can now pause and resume any download or all downloads.

Better BitTorrent support. BitTorrent performance is significantly improved.