Comments on: What’s Next for Democracy Player? http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NewTeeVee » RIP Democracy, Hello Miro http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444265 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:00:53 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444265 [...] podcast client with integrated video player, program guide and BitTorrent support (whose new upcoming features Jackson covered previously) will be called Miro. Why? According to the company blog: But the name [...]

]]> By: Douglas http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444264 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:40:50 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444264 Well… I think that this could work. I definitely like it so far except for those problems I mentioned before. This could be a standard framework for bringing tv to the internet. Not just youtube-esque user produced content and mediocre public access type production,, but also network television. Networks could set up an rss feed with the latest episodes of their shows and we could use demeocracy to download and view it. Not that I think they actually will anytime soon, because they’re a bit short sighted in their view that putting things on the internet might downgrade profits. But it’s not extremely far-fetched. NBC currently has a lot of their full shows online, albeit restricted to US IPs and only the most recent episodes, but it shows that they’re moving in that direction.

Either way, I think the fact that they’re centralizing online video downloads to some extent is good enough.

This really turned into a bit of a rant. Didn’t mean to do that. I guess we’ll see what happens in the future with these guys though.

]]> By: Ajay http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444263 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:05:56 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444263 Oh, I’m sure there will be improvements and that it’s better now than when I downloaded it a while back. What I’m saying is that, based on what they say and the decisions they’ve made so far, I don’t think these guys will end up going anywhere. I think they’re largely wasting their own and other people’s time, as it will take different ideas and people to get this done right.

]]> By: Douglas http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444262 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:55:19 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444262 @ Ajay… I wouldn’t say this project is going nowhere. I downloaded the latest version about a week ago (never previously downloaded it) and it shows great potential to be the itunes for video (which itunes hasn’t done, even though it’s tried). It just needs to work out small quirks.

  1. Allow easy addition of multiple videos already on your local machine to the playlist. The video player for this thing can actually play xvid, divx and the like, but right now the only way to add these files to the playlist is one at a time through the “open file” dialogue.

  2. Allow the user to play around with the settings for the bittorrent client. Bittorrent is great, but it’s also a bandwidth hog. Personally, my connection isn’t slow, but it also isn’t knock your socks off quick either so I always have to limit upload and download speeds along with a couple other tweaks to get my bittorrent client to work and for me to browse the internet without a big hit to the speed. The only thing that it allows you to do is limit upload speed when you’re not idle.

  3. They need to become more compatible with the various rss feed standards o ut there. This is really a minor encumbrance as it is compatible with a lot of feeds, but there were a few that I couldn’t get to work. Notably those from comedy central.

But it’s a beta. Version 1 hasn’t come out yet. And I’m sure that they’ll do these in addition to a lot of other things that I haven’t even thought of.

]]> By: Krish http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444261 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:54:45 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444261 Guys, relax. People told the same thing about Firefox. Open Source is not desperate to show numbers like the commercial counterparts.

]]> By: testblog » links for 2007-02-18 http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444260 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:46:18 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444260 […] NewTeeVee » What’s Next for Democracy Player? (tags: video democracy mediaplayer) […]

]]> By: Tyrone http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444259 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:59:59 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444259 1 million downloads sounds like a lot until you divide by 8 (the number of releases in the last year). It’s the same group of people downloading the same stuff.

1 million wow!

125K, oh…

]]> By: Ajay http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444258 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:34:54 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444258 These guys are pretty clueless, this project will go nowhere. The only relevance of this project is that practically anybody can now fund something on a small budget. That allows a lot of innovation to come from a lot of different places but it’s not going to be from these guys.

]]> By: GigaOM » Democracy Player Getting More Social http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444257 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:23:03 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444257 […] co-creator Nicholas Reville gives NewTeeVee the scoop. Continue Reading. No comments Share/Send Sphere Topic: Asides Tags: Democracy Player, OnlineVideo […]

]]> By: Blog - Democracy: Internet TV http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444256 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:08:24 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444256 […] There’s been a lot of good coverage of the 0.9.5 release this week. We’re on the Download.com (and they have a whole lot of feature requests for us), there’s a good post on NewTeeVee about 0.9.5 and our plans for 1.0, and Technology Evangelist put up this video chat interview with me (note the extreme angle!). […]

]]> By: netzpolitik.org: » Democracy Player in den Medien » Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen der Informationsgesellschaft. http://gigaom.com/video/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444255 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:26:01 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/whats-next-for-democracy-player/#comment-444255 […] Janko Röttgers hat mit einem der Entwickler des Democracy Players gesprochen: Whats next for Democracy Player? All of this is part of a bigger plan to literally democratize television, one video podcast at a time. Reville and his coworkers set up a nonprofit4 structured after the model of the Mozilla foundation to be free from the pressure a startup in this space has to deal with and focus on their long-term strategy. Time will tell if their plan is gonna work out. “It’s definitely a challenge to get people to download a new type of application,” admits Reville. “We’ll see how we do in the mainstream audience once we hit 1.0.” […]

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