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I'm taking questions about Boxee and the Boxee Box
I'll be here starting 4pm ET and will hang out till midnight answering questions regarding Boxee, Boxee Box and all things Boxee :)
I know the Boxee Box is getting USB ports, so if I had a USB dvd drive that works with most flavors of linux is there a chance Boxee will autodetect and be able to use it?
i think it waits till the information about the episode is complete.
will it be open source ? can someone add a plugin to it ? Will plugins be 100% compatible with XBMC?
Besides the Boxee Box what other set top boxes/PCs would you recommend to run Boxee?
I know you're building your own, but you should check out feedly for RSS integration, might be interesting to work with them.
url: www.feedly.com/
url: www.feedly.com/
If I hook up an External HDD to the Boxee Box will it have the ability to share that drive to the network? (Ex: Move my shared external library from being connected to my Mac to being connected to Boxee in order to not have to stream local media?)
I've been using Boxee since early in the Alpha, and the Beta is SO much better...except for one thing. When are you adding back in the ability to edit/control the metadata that gets pulled? My local files are completely screwed up because Boxee is pulling the wrong info. We're talking things like "Ass Aliens" for the movie "Aliens"...try explaining _that_ mistake to your wife. Battlestar Galactica will NOT resolve correctly, etc.
Yes, I have read all the "rename your files properly" stuff. It's just tons easier to fix it manually, especially when you have TV shows involved.
Yes, I have read all the "rename your files properly" stuff. It's just tons easier to fix it manually, especially when you have TV shows involved.
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I've been doing this via shortcuts, and hacking a "friendly name" for the networked folder in the Boxee XML file. I guess my real question here is whether the new version will support arbitrary user-inputted metadata for media directly in Boxee itself (that is, enter the metadata in Boxee, not pull it from the files themselves). Sorry to harp on this one - it's the dealbreaker feature for my family :)
It would be so sweet if there is an interface to a network tuner like silicondust's current hdhomerun and their upcoming version for cablecards. But then there is the big requirement for supporting a TV Guide. If boxee can open Windows Media Center files, can access remote tuners with Guide support, and have a client to interface to a Media Center host to schedule recordings, then I wouldn't really need Media Center extenders and never have to look at the Media Center host directly.
it was designed by a company named Method in SF.
we wanted something that will be personable, related to media, something with a twist.
people see different things when looking at the logo: a frog, a monkey, an old video camera, the letter 'B'. all are right.
they called the design punched-eye boxee.
we wanted something that will be personable, related to media, something with a twist.
people see different things when looking at the logo: a frog, a monkey, an old video camera, the letter 'B'. all are right.
they called the design punched-eye boxee.
What is Boxee's current relationship status with YouTube? Didn't they have a crackdown on unlicensed devices that connect to youtube? I would love for boxee to be able to login into my youtube account to access private videos, playlists, subscriptions, but the current interface doesn't support that. I wonder if it has anything to do with licensing.
