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Democracy Internet TV launches
The "Democracy" Internet television project has announced its existence with a press release proclaiming the availability of its GPL-licensed video player. It is a Windows download for now, though there is a developer release of a Linux-based player available. "Democracy builds on cutting edge RSS, Firefox, and BitTorrent technology
to empower anyone to watch, share, broadcast and download video over the
internet in a way that enables higher digital resolution, full screen video
playback, continuous non-buffered play, and an open standards environment free
of adware or spyware -- a much more TV-like experience than traditional web
video, and with far more diversity and freedom than traditional TV."
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Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 22, 2006 22:03 UTC (Wed) by lovelace (guest, #278) [Link] It is a Windows download for now, though there is a developer release of a Linux-based player available. The player has been available on OS X for some time now as the DTV player, so it's not exactly new.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 22, 2006 22:04 UTC (Wed) by nigelm (subscriber, #622) [Link] Seems odd that this is marked as a subscriber only article - theres nothing more than the original summary and thats just a report of a press release. So why the $ sign?
Subscriber-only Posted Feb 22, 2006 22:07 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] I have no idea how that came to be - clearly, it was wrong. Fixed now.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 22, 2006 22:27 UTC (Wed) by hal9000 (guest, #27639) [Link] Sigh, it always seems like "the Linux version is still in the works". Perhaps I should stop complaining and learn GTK/Qt.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 22, 2006 23:10 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (guest, #1026) [Link] Perhaps you should do both: keep complaining and learn GTK+/Qt. Complaining is underrated.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 22, 2006 23:38 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] More like GTK and Python. I don't see any Qt dependencies.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 23, 2006 4:46 UTC (Thu) by petrus4 (guest, #28925) [Link] Sigh, it always seems like "the Linux version is still in the works". Perhaps I should stop complaining and learn GTK/Qt. Either that or get Wine. The player doesn't look like a complex program, at least at first glance, so I'm assuming Wine could run it.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 23, 2006 4:54 UTC (Thu) by petrus4 (guest, #28925) [Link] I just had another thought. I'm guessing that all the player is is an RSS reader with some GUI and video playing controls. You could probably easily duplicate that with php-gtk for both the interface and the RSS reading, and then just call out to libcurl to download the files, and xine etc to play them. Very simple. It'd be even easier if you did the whole thing inside a web browser, since you've got the interface, RCC reader, and file downloading capabilities right there.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 23, 2006 7:35 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link] RSS? Firefox? *Bittorrent*? It seems Bittorrent is a very unsuitable protocol to build a p2p based video streaming system, as you would be fundamentally unable to seek actually stream it. And I don't really understand what a web browser has to do with anything, let alone a specific one.
Democracy Internet TV launches Posted Feb 27, 2006 18:02 UTC (Mon) by dw (subscriber, #12017) [Link] The videos play only when fully downloaded. RSS enclosures are used due them being a very popular and easy to use protocol suitable for the task of disprate content push. Firefox contains a cross-platform cross-language object manager, XML-based GUI layout engine, and a huge library of code for doing all sorts of networkey/HTMLey/XMLey stuff. Think of it as a sort of Internet-specific class library for C++ and Javascript. :)
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