Democracy Player - Rss Feeds - IPTV - Rev3

[theendlessloop]

I was trying to get Democracy Player (http://www.getdemocracy.com/) to work with Rev3's feeds. But they would show all of the different formats in the channel.

Democracy Player has a lot of potential for being a great IPTV player, although it does have some down sides.

As for Rev3 I think it would be very beneficial to have a proper Democracy Player feed or channel, To allow people to easily access their content. Whether the feeds are for individual shows or a One-Click Subscribe (http://subscribe.getdemocracy.com/) for all of Rev3's shows.

They also have software for websites called Broadcast Machine (http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/), might be able to integrate it with the new Rev3 site.

Finally, Democracy Player seems to work pretty good with TVRss.net (http://tvrss.net/)

-The Endless Loop-

[moggers87]

If you load the feed in a browser such as Firefox and then go to page info (right click on the page in Fx) you will see that the feed is text/html. Of course, DP is expecting text/xml or something like that so it just goes crazy :P

The bug has been noted here (https://develop.participatoryculture.org/projects/democracy/ticket/4429)

Edit: A qucik fix for anyone with access to a http server with php:

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
readfile($_GET[url]);
?>

It just reroutes the rss feed through your server and changes the Content-type to something that Democracy can use.

My question now is why are the Revision3 sending out RSS feeds as HTML? :P

[elmargol]

Please fix those feeds!
Can't be to difficult!
Not everyone uses iTunes!!!

[chrismcq]

I just downloaded Democracy yesterday and really enjoy the program.

If Rev3 could set up their feeds to work with Democracy it could only benefit them.

http://www.feedburner.com is the website that can be used for making your HTML/RSS feeds work with Democracy.

[bman]

I just downloaded Democracy yesterday and really enjoy the program.

If Rev3 could set up their feeds to work with Democracy it could only benefit them.

http://www.feedburner.com is the website that can be used for making your HTML/RSS feeds work with Democracy.

Yes I was going to mention that, feedburner is really good.

[singlewall]

I have been using Democracy to view the REV3 content for a few months now, and it used to work before the site redesign. As people have noted the new feeds dont really work too well within Democracy Player, so Im back to downloading the vids manually.

Feeds that are compatible with Democracy would be a great addition to the new site design. The player is working its way towards its 1.0 release, and I think its going to be a very popular option for subscribing to video feeds.

[justinf951]

I love Democracy, I can't understand how people can use itunes I never liked it. I just wish the Rev3 guys would get the feeds working because the whole reason I love democracy is that I don't have to go looking for updates, they come to me.

[schalicto]

I have one big problem with democracy player, I can't read any of the text on my hdtv. I think they need to figure out a way to scale the text larger for larger displays. I also can't figure out how to make the video full screen.

-Josh