Democracy Player 0.9.6 is out, and the open source media player has added a host of new features for finding and watching videos on the internet or stored on your computer.

Here's some of the new features:

• Democracy Player 0.9.6 fixes some compatibility issues with Windows Vista.
  
• Folder Watch monitors selected folder on your PC. When you add videos to that folder they show up in your collection.
• Democracy Player will save your place if you stop watching a video in the middle. Next time you watch that same video, it will pick up where it left off.
• Mac users can now download and install updates through the client. No need to download an installer using a web browser.
• There are also a bunch of bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and reduced memory usage.
  

The Democracy team is pretty much done adding new features for now, and will focus primarily on bug fixes until version 1.0 hits the streets, at which point the media player will get a new name: Miro.