Comments on: Hackit: Boxee now on Windows

By: Zossip

Zossip — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:42:34 +0000

Second: don’t forget the Hulu desktop app. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well they did implementing a couch-worthy interface for it. Just map a “launch hulu desktop” button and another for “alt-f4″ on your remote, and you’re set up for streaming TV. Unless, of course, you want to watch any of their content from Sony….

By: kitsuneadam

kitsuneadam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:15:26 +0000

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By: James

James — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:43:42 +0000

Two quick notes:

The guy who said it’s not easy to navigate your MythTV content from your xmbc — share your /myth/pretty folder. I didn’t know it was there, either, until I started to actually write a script that does the exact same thing…

By: blankthemuffin

blankthemuffin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:20:42 +0000

I want a x86-64 build for linux.

By: iann0036

iann0036 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:50:02 +0000

Here’s a crazy thought.

Mobile Boxee. Think of how amazing it would be on say, a HTC Hero.

By: mcraenz

mcraenz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:15:23 +0000

MediaPortal of course.

By: Guy Mann

Guy Mann — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:07:21 +0000

I really like boxee personally. I chose to use it intially because it didn’t have any of the TV tuning stuff that other media players seem to think are so important. I love that it doesn’t bother with the whole trying to hook up to the TV channels because i don’t get any.

I do have a few gripes about it however. First, I agree i don’t care for the social networks aspect of it. might be cool if anyone else i knew used it but for now it’s not useful. Second, i never use anything but the browse optino for viewing my media because boxee does such a poor job of categorizing my media.

That said it is nice and simple and it easily integrated my IR remote without any configuration.

By: docodine

docodine — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:41 +0000

Boxee already was released for Windows with full Hulu support, for a short time.

IIRC I got the email from them in like January.. Worked perfectly fine too.

By: signal7

signal7 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:59 +0000

I’m a mythtv user and I’ve been using it a Tivo replacement for about 7 months. I think it makes a great media center solution, but bear in mind that I only use it for TV, DVD’s, and music. The current UI takes some getting used to, but I don’t think it’s a show stopper by any means. There’s a lot of little innovative, good sense design ideas in there that more than make up for its shortcomings, imho.

@headbonk: The mythtv developers *are* doing a UI rewrite. From what I hear, you can expect a much better UI in 0.22 when it comes out.

By: headbonk

headbonk — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:15 +0000

I’ve been using MythTV for quite a few years now (my wife and kids are watching a movie recorded from TV as I write). I find that MythTV is good at what it was originally implemented for – Scheduling and recording TV shows using tuner cards. It’s UI is OK, but pretty clunky at complex tasks. I find that it totally fails at most other media center functions that it tries to provide – It sucks as a digital photo gallery and as a music player. It’s ok at playing back and managing videos that I’ve gotten from other sources and put into the right folder on the myth system, but again it suffers from the clunky UI at times. Since I’m a software engineer, I’ve looked at the UI code to see what it would take to improve it and, IMHO, it is not fixable short of a ground up re-write.

I did briefly try XBMC on windows, and it seems pretty slick. I’m planning on trying out using XBMC as a front end, talking to the MythTV server as the backend. I understand there is some support for talking to MythTV built into XBMC and a more integrated functionality is planned or has been discussed on their forums. The web interface for scheduling shows on mythtv is the easiest to use anyway.

When Boxee was first mentioned here, I signed up for the beta, before I realised that there was no windows client available and I didn’t have a linux system available for messing with at the time. I suppose I will give it a try now, but I am skeptical of the social network features as well. I am also skeptical of the fact that it is a for-profit company that is creating it which has no clear business model.

By: pRtkL xLr8r

pRtkL xLr8r — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:30:51 +0000

I have 3 hacked xboxes running xbmc. So damn convienient to be able to hook it up to a tv in the room and then bam, instant movies from the fileshares. I have mythtv as well, and the recordings go into a folder that can be accessed from all the xmbc boxes…it may not be named all pretty, but from the channel number and date/time you can get around fairly well. Can’t get xbmc to compile under gentoo tho, really wanted to see if it could do HD movies well enough…

By: mig

mig — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:09:08 +0000

i’m yet to try out xbmc but it seems the best of the bunch. I don’t get the social networking aspect of boxee. what’s the point? if a friend wants to recommend me something they can do so already in numerous ways.

By: grant

grant — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:32:57 +0000

I’ve been wanting to try boxee out for awhile now. But for some reason, in this day and age, they still have no simple way to install it on x64 systems.

Get with the times and give us some 64 bit builds boxee!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:50:29 +0000

I have used (and still do on a daily basis) Media-Portal.

It’s open-source, supports TV cards, Remote Controls, HD content, Plug-ins, plus lots more.

http://www.team-mediaportal.com

It’s definately the best of the bunch (at least for Windoze boxes anyway)

By: pascal

pascal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:00:48 +0000

@FlimtotheFlam of course I know that, I only use free software (besides wine-able games). But “if you don’t like it, go fix it” is not a universal counterargument when you’re talking about free software — I really don’t see a point in investing any time into fixing *that*. Since it’s not done with small patches. It would be easier to write a new one, well and that’s what everybody else did, thus the abundance of bad media center software.