Linux Version of Democracy Player Released

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."

Unfortunately, it's still buggy as hell...

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

I've been using the democracy player under OSX and Windows for the last several versions. It also frequently crashes, often taking out its config files in the process. The bitorrent bits wreak havoc on your network connection (on OSX and WinXP). The Linux version JUST became available, but given the problems with the more "mature" platforms, I'm reluctant to inflict it on my Linux laptop...

Dependancy issues on Dapper

[eqisow]

The Ubuntu .deb has dependancy issues on Ubuntu Dapper Drake. dpkg complains of libboost-python1.33.0 being missing because Dapper use libboost-python1.33.1.

Similar to ACTLab TV and Songbird

[UseFree.org]

This is similar to another open-source endeavor called ACTLab TV [actlab.tv], with which you can stream TV programs from multiple users in real-time. A story [slashdot.org] about ACTLab TV appeared about a year ago.

It is also similar to Songbird [songbirdnest.com], the Itunes-like application that focuses primarily on enabling users to download DRM-free music from independent artists. Songbird was also covered [slashdot.org] recently.

Re:Dependancy issues on Dapper

[rolfpal]

I fixed it by going to /usr/lib and doing "sudo ln -s libboost_python-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1 libboost_python-gcc-mt-1_33.so.1.33.0"

The other dependencies (for me) were just mozilla-browser and mozilla-psm

It crashes right after playing a video tho

Re:Non-commercial project

[clahey]

Actually, the channel guide URL is currently setable, but only as an environment variable. The documentation for the API to use on your website to make it work with Democracy is at https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/ democracy/wiki/ChannelGuideToDtvApi [participatoryculture.org]

I believe the plans are to make the channel guide settable through the GUI. If nothing else, I think a gconf key is in order.

You can also submit your channels to the main channel guide. I'm not sure what our policy is on things like porn, but I'm positive that you definitely won't be filtered out for political reasons.

And one of the things to note is that the Participatory Culture Foundation is a non-profit. There's no profit margin for us to sell out to.

Re:Can't install on Mandriva or compile source

[cgreuter]

You can always:

1. Get the source RPM.
2. Use rpm2cpio to extract the contents.
3. Look at the spec file to see how it builds the player.

That sometimes works for me.