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Boxee unveiled their new boxee beta and their upcoming tv box. Looks pretty cool. I assume Hulu will drop support again because the tv execs will be shitting their pants when they see an average user can drop cable/dish for as little as $200. I for one use a mac mini on my tv and can't wait for this beta to come out since the alpha does not play nice with snow leopard and the apple remote.
http://www.boxee.tv/

12/7/2009 10:11:00 PM

When in 2010? Price confirmed? Will it playback 1080p?

12/8/2009 9:39:58 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/boxee-box-coming-q2-2010-d-link-revealed-as-hardware-partner/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/boxee-beta-unveiled-refreshed-ui-directx-support-and-new-cont/

12/8/2009 2:19:23 PM

I was just getting ready to build an HTPC. If this thing is actually going to materialize in the next six months for $200 and will handle 1080p playback I may wait.

12/8/2009 3:37:31 PM

How is Boxee's art detection nowadays? I still can't find anything close to the TV-Series and Moving Pictures plugins for MediaPortal.

12/8/2009 3:40:48 PM

^

Quote :

"Boxee is designed to take advantage of the system's network port if a broadband Internet connection is available, using the IMDb to obtain metadata information, thumbnails, and reviews on movies, TheTVDB for TV show thumbnails and metadata, CDDB (via Freedb) for Audio-CD track-listings, and album-cover thumbnails via AMG."

TheTVDB = same as TVSeries
IMDb = same as Moving Pictures

not sure why you complain about this so much, 7MC, VMC, Boxee, XBMC all have the ability to scrape from the same sources automatically.

and will it support blu-ray via usb drive?

what i'm looking for:
blu-ray playback (i don't want to burn blu-ray i get from netflix)
netflix streaming
pandora streaming
PC/WHS media streaming (at min. DivX support, MKV would be great)
usb media playback

not required, but would like:
hulu
youtube
other internet tv content
picasa/flickr for photos

currently i'm looking at the Samsung BD-P3600 (~$230):
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-video/blu-ray/blu-ray-players/BD-P3600A/XAA/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail

the WD TV Live doesn't support blu-ray
the popcorn hour is expensive ($300+$100 blu-ray drive + enclosure + hard drive, mediocre UI)
the Myka ION is expensive (+$600 do do all this)
...

looking to get rid of my mediaPC as i don't use the TV tuner card hardly at all.

[Edited on December 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM. Reason : .]

12/8/2009 4:18:02 PM

<3 boxee

12/8/2009 9:00:52 PM

^^scrape sources are the same, but I guess it's the parsing that I'm particular about.

12/9/2009 1:22:04 AM

Hey guys, if any of you have any concerns/questions regarding Boxee or the Beta let me know. You can find me over on the Boxee Forums as this same user (DPK) or just post in this thread. I field support and wouldn't mind helping out some of my fellow Pack brethren.

12/9/2009 4:04:08 PM

so wheretf can i download this? or is the software waiting for the box?

12/9/2009 4:52:54 PM

^^will the boxee box support blu-ray?

beta came out on bit torrent

[Edited on December 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM. Reason : /]

12/14/2009 7:56:47 PM

Hey DPK,

I am getting the beta later tonight, but i was wondering if you got the kinks worked out so us mac users can use the mac remote on snow leopard again?

12/14/2009 9:28:18 PM

^^^Look for "boxee" on isohunt, it should be your first result (boxee-0.9.20.9647).

^^It's highly unlikely it will support Blu-Ray since the decoders are expensive to license.

12/14/2009 10:14:05 PM

i only see windows beta leaks :/

12/14/2009 10:32:04 PM

Anyone have any luck getting the beta version for os x? Seems like the pirate bay link is the hotbed of information on the beta leaks and no-one is able to find the mac version.

12/16/2009 11:03:02 PM

dude you must be blind, it's linked to the OS X version directly on the torrent page

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5211168/Boxee_Beta_0.9.20.9647
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5223541/Boxee_Beta_0.9.20.9816_(OSX)

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 1:29 AM. Reason : ,]

12/17/2009 1:29:16 AM

It wasn't there last time I looked. Thanks for the great attitude and the link.

12/17/2009 10:15:55 AM

Anyone having issues with the Netflix app? I just get a red box with white text saying tie my account to boxee but can't see the login boxes.

Anyone having issues with thumbnails being pulled from Picasaweb?

Also how do you show the weather, or is it limited to just the icon in the upper right?

I see it has Autoplay for DVD, will that work with Blu-ray assuming I have PowerDVD installed?

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 10:52 AM. Reason : .]

12/17/2009 10:46:33 AM

Authorize Netflix on the Boxee account services website:

http://boxee.tv/account/services

12/17/2009 2:52:33 PM

not sure how i missed that. i've had an account for over a year and never seen that.

12/17/2009 4:30:19 PM

Honestly, the error message isn't exactly super clear in explaining how to solve that particular problem. I had to search for it earlier, myself.

12/17/2009 4:42:58 PM

well the rest of the apps had the login as the first screen, i wasn't really expecting having to visit the boxee.tv website to enable any of them.

12/17/2009 5:05:37 PM

been playing with the alpha all weekend, signed up for the beta and heard it worked better on Ubuntu Karmic which would be nice to try. Tried looking around on the usual places for a tar of the beta but never found one.

We're definitely going to cut the cable cord sometime soon to save some money so I guess I just need to decide on building my own boxee box or waiting for the Dlink product.

1/4/2010 1:03:17 PM

A word of warning about those torrents you guys. Those versions are not the most up to date so if you do have any issues, please keep in mind that they could be fixed in a recent build. If you could, make sure that you search http://jira.boxee.tv and if the issue does not exist, report it. New beta builds should be around the corner especially with CES starting up on Thursday, but the most recent public build numbers are:

0.9.20.10063 - Mac OSX 10.4+ (Intel Only)
0.9.20.10063 - Windows XP/Vista/7
0.9.20.10066 - Ubuntu Linux 9.04/9.10 x86 32bit
0.9.20.10069 - Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic) x86 64bit

Note that those are the version numbers of the install file and not the internal number within the general settings of Boxee. Boxee comes out of private beta at CES, so get excited and read to download it if you haven't already.

[Edited on January 4, 2010 at 1:39 PM. Reason : -]

1/4/2010 1:32:12 PM

i'll be downloading this sometime this week

DPK: How is Boxee related to XBMC? I see that Boxee is a sponsor of XBMC - is it built off of it?

[Edited on January 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM. Reason : i was actually going to go with XBMC initially until i found out it had no netflix app ]

1/4/2010 3:00:36 PM

Thanks DPK

I got my early access email last week. I'm running 0.9.20.10063 - Windows XP/Vista/7

1/4/2010 3:17:57 PM

^ Great to have you on board! I too am a Windows Boxee user.

^^ Boxee is a fork of the XBMC project. Boxee actively contributes back significant code changes to the XBMC source. Similarly, Boxee pulls significant fixes/mods from the XBMC project into new versions. Where they differ is in terms of perspective. Boxee is more of a social media center designed to network various sources of media (cbs, hulu, netflix, pandora, etc) and allow you to share what you find interesting with your friends. All while managing your local media as well. There are also plans to integrate facebook and twitter into your recommendation feed. A lot of code has been rewritten to get it to this point to get it to integrate various media sources. An example of this would be if you go to "TV Shows" and search for say "House". Boxee will add "House" to your list of shows, pull in any local episodes on your machines as well as other sources (like hulu), and then let you pick/choose from where you want to watch it from.

Boxee is generally gearing toward a solution that pretty much anyone would find easy to use with a friendly interface. XBMC is more of a customizable media center geared for someone with a bit more technological knowledge. The new XBMC interface is pretty slick I admit, but Boxee takes a different approach with its interface in the current beta.

They both have their strong points. I prefer Boxee however for its social aspects and its growing integration with various media sources. It's a very "couch friendly" media center.

1/5/2010 12:45:38 AM

Listening to the Engadget Live Podcast right now and those guys are talking about the Boxee Box. They are saying it's the most impressive thing they've seen at CES this year.

The back of the remote has a qwerty keyboard on it.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/hands-on-with-the-boxee-box/

1/6/2010 3:33:49 AM

wonder if they'd sell that remote just by itself

1/6/2010 8:11:27 AM

^ Yes, the remote will be sold separately for those of you that have a custom box already built. A USB dongle will allow for the remote to communicate with your machine.

Confirmation:
http://twitter.com/boxee/statuses/7441966758

For more info, please see:
http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/01/05/by-the-pricking-of-my-thumbs-something-awesome-this-way-comes/

1/6/2010 11:34:04 AM

FUCK YEAH

1/6/2010 12:36:36 PM

add support for blu-ray and it will be damn near perfect.

1/6/2010 2:34:57 PM

The beta should be publicly available at around 2:00PM EST today guys. Just relaying what I just heard from higher up the Boxee food chain.

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 7:20 AM. Reason : -]

1/7/2010 7:19:46 AM

ok, for someone that has never even heard of boxee before, can someone give me a cliff notes rundown?

1/7/2010 8:27:22 AM

^ Try this for a quick blurb and video demo:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10410159-250.html

1/7/2010 9:14:35 AM

the beta's out

1/7/2010 3:08:01 PM

This is for anyone that can help. I setup a mac mini with the new boxee beta. I setup the smb sharing on an imac that has all the media on it and connected to it via a usb hard drive. Boxee found it and added the content in the movie/tv sections in the program itself. The only thing is when I click on a movie it does not give me a play option instead it says local or something like it. No matter what I do I can not stream that content. What am I doing wrong?

I have the network setup via a airport express which should give me decent N streaming speeds. Am I crippling the content by having it on an external drive? Any thoughts would be helpful.

1/16/2010 12:28:32 AM

Quote :

"The only thing is when I click on a movie it does not give me a play option instead it says local or something like it. No matter what I do I can not stream that content."

I'm not sure I follow. If it says "Local File" when you click on the media you should be able to watch it from your share. I don't think sharing from an external is "crippling the content" at all. This might just be a permissions problem.

Here's a great video on setting up sharing on a Mac:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8lGU-mX1U

Corresponding topic on Boxee forums:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=1352

1/17/2010 5:15:38 AM

As a side note, if any of you guys are Conan fans I have an app out right now as a result of the current goings on w/ him and NBC. Just updated it as a result of Hulu repeatedly blocking my attempts to scrape their feed data. Probably will keep the app on my repository for another week or so. Just depends on the future of Coco and if Hulu keeps finding ways to annoy me.

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=79658

1/17/2010 5:21:42 AM

boxee beta for Mac is unstable as hell.. and how the hell are you supposed to log into hulu? i can't type in the text boxes

1/20/2010 7:02:42 PM

i want to buy mah remote already

1/25/2010 1:06:58 PM

Beta version 0.9.20.10408 is now up for download if you've got Mac/Win. Linux is at *.10356.

1/26/2010 12:31:13 AM

I am having much better luck with the newest version of the beta for mac. Quick question. Currently the setup is 1 imac and 2 mac mini's. The imac has all the content and the entire network is using an airport express.

For the life of me I can not get iphoto from the imac to be recognized on either of the mac mini's in boxee (it works in iphoto itself). Normally to share I need to go into the sharing folder in system preferences and find any and all folders to share, the only thing is iphoto does not allow you to actually share the folder. Any ideas?

2/9/2010 12:05:26 PM

^same here, the new beta for mac is great

2/9/2010 7:05:11 PM

boxee is a pos. It cant recognize most of my tv even tho they're named properly and many of my movies it detects wrong.

It thinks \\FUNKYTOWN\Video\Movies\The Dark Knight (2008)\The.Dark.Knight.avi is Kung Fu Panda.

What a load of crap. Windows media center + media browser is 10000x better

2/9/2010 9:06:59 PM

Well that settles it. I've been debating on installing this for a while, but now I'm gonna have to check it out this weekend. If Shaggy thinks it sucks it must be one of the best pieces of software ever written.

[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 9:22 PM. Reason : cause that guy has shit taste in EVERYTHING.]

2/9/2010 9:21:52 PM

^^Word. Although I like the idea of Boxee, I'm actively using Windows 7 Media Center with MediaBrowser and MediaScout.

http://www.mediabrowser.tv/
http://www.codeplex.com/TVScout/

Boxee still has a ways to go for local content indexing, although it does integration of web content very nicely.

[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM. Reason : .]

2/9/2010 9:22:17 PM

i've been using media browser + metabrowser (http://themetabrowser.com/)

xbmc seems to have no problem picking up tv show info or movie info. So idk what boxee broke when they forked. I may look into xbmc plugins cause while media browser/wmc is cool, the UI is a little too slow and i like the web app stuff.

2/9/2010 9:28:54 PM

Instead of going off on it, could you please be helpful and report incorrectly resolved movies to:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGMxVWZhQUdfcVdIZG5HOXpVMFRqNlE6MA

This is a result of recently changing databases from TheTVDB to license IMDB officially for legal reasons. There's still some kinks being worked out. Thanks. Manual movie/tv resolution is set to return in a coming build (http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-3320).

[Edited on February 9, 2010 at 10:24 PM. Reason : -]

2/9/2010 10:18:45 PM

I guess i just dont understand why imdb in xbmc would work fine, but not in boxee. Or how "the dark knight" could ever possibly get transformed into "kung fu panda".

For something thats supposed to be released with supporting hardware soon it seems like they're pretty far off from a completed product.

2/9/2010 11:41:47 PM