Comments on: Review: Boxee Media Center (or Going HD: Part 4)

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By: Darren Woodley

Darren Woodley — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:42 +0000

Since you said you weren’t particularly interested in Hulu’s streaming options, had you tried out XBMC before Boxee? I’ve wondered how similar / different the two really are, considering they share the same codebase.

By: Michael Natale

Michael Natale — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:55:13 +0000

You said:

“…If you have an Apple TV you can get Boxee running on it as well, just don’t expect HD content to work.”

Not sure what I’m missing there. I have my ATV running Boxee and have for about 3 months. It plays HD content just fine.

By: Rhiannon Floyd

Rhiannon Floyd — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:14:42 +0000

Like Mark Jaquith posted above, I also use my Xbox 360 and Rivet running on my iMac. It works just fine for a limited space setup, and especially because I have my iMac on all the time. I’ve used Boxee though and have to say that it’s pretty damn good software, especially for an alpha release. The interface design is solid, and I’m sure it can only get better from here. If I ever run a dedicated HTPC in the future, I’d probably run Boxee. The temptation is getting hard to resist.

By: Jonty

Jonty — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:36:59 +0000

Will look into it. Thanks!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:21:42 +0000

I’ve been using Boxee for almost 2 years now, and I use it primarily with a Mac mini hooked up to my 42″ Philips HDTV. I use 2 1TB MyBooks as my media storage, and I love Boxee’s simplicity and ease-of-use. I’ll be a Boxee user for a long time in the future.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:18:15 +0000

I use Plex (XBMC). Find it way better than boxee. I use it strictly for HD movies and ripped tv shows tho.

By: Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:27:06 +0000

There is a windows version of boxee in alpha, you can signup to join the test via the forum

By: Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:18:31 +0000

I use TVnamer (http://wiki.github.com/dbr/tvdb_api/tvnamer) to cleanse the film names of downloaded TV shows, find that the Boxee name parser is a lot happier with something like Lost – S01E01 – Its Weird.avi. It’s a python script so happily runs as a cron job.
Not sure if you are aware of the “A” key functionality, basically it lists the shares being monitored and lets you see how many files its had issues with, if you click on any of the shares it lists out files and directories for you to manually enter the details. Often find adding the year to film names helps the parser.

By: Adam Fortuna

Adam Fortuna — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:30:11 +0000

Funny timing — I just finished a blog post on setting up a media center, although I’m going the Plex/sabnzbd route myself.

How does Boxee do with for you with playing really high def video? You could try out the birds video from Planet Earth to see how well it does. It drops over 100 frames on any system I’ve tried, and it’s completely unwatchable in VLC and some “better” video players, yet works OK in Plex. Still trying to get it to run perfect on any setup though.

By: titanium_geek

titanium_geek — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:45 +0000

nice article- I’ve got to call you out on the phrase

“And don’t you just hate it when the the sound is off by ever so much? No problem, Boxee lets you fine-tune the audio offset (as well as with subtitles too).”

“ever so much”? “off by that much” or “off by a fraction of a second” would have been better. :P

Thanks for keeping me informed about the tech world.

By: Moritz

Moritz — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:46:47 +0000

Hi Paul,
You don’t need to buy a remote, you can use your iPhone with the Boxee App.

But you need to jailbreak your iphone.

here is how you can get it:

1. Open Cydia.
2. Go to Manage->Source->Edit->Add , and add “http://apt.boxee.tv/cydia/” as a source.
3. Choose “Boxee” from the source list.
4. Choose “Boxee Remote Control” from the source list.
5. Hit “Install”

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:31:38 +0000

Still using the Xbox360 and Rivet on my Mac. Just watching SD stuff though. Boxee looks nice. I was a big fan of XBMC (and XBMP before it).

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:13:38 +0000

No, not really. It’s been awhile so I can’t remember if the friends thing is like Facebook where you don’t become friends or see each others stuff until after you confirm or not. I would imagine though that as long as you turn sharing off, that no body but you can see what you’ve watched or watching.

You could read this if you want the lawyer version though.
http://www.boxee.tv/privacy

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:02:16 +0000

That is cool,

Does the that then remove the friends and recommendations from the interface?

Thanks

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:48:08 +0000

@James – Yes you can. In the Account page there is a Privacy section and you can control that. http://bit.ly/co8×4

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:40:19 +0000

I was just wondering can you turn off the social network aspect of Boxee if you are not interested in them.

Thanks

By: Jonty

Jonty — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:18:25 +0000

Got a HP Slimline beside the TV Stand, and was using Windows Media Center – and then I started looking at Qnap NAS + PS3. Boxee looks interesting, but wont be running on my Slimline, until I move back to Ubuntu or get a Mac Mini.