Jason Murray's dashboard

A comment on the question "Browsing the "Movie" page makes me stabby." in boxee:

There's no way to do Page Up/Down in an invisible fashion with the Apple remote. The scrollbar's on screen anyway, so it doesn't add any navigation elements to the screen if they use it. – Jason Murray, on October 07, 2009 15:51

Jason Murray replied on October 06, 2009 00:46 to the question "Browsing the "Movie" page makes me stabby." in boxee:

Also, when browsing a directory that has a few hundred titles listed, a page up/down us much needed!

XBMC gets around this by making the scrollbar a selectable object. Move right to select the scrollbar and then it goes pageup/pagedown.

Boxee refuses to do this for some reason.

Jason Murray started following the idea "Allow Boxee to use a DLNA Media Server as a Media Source" in boxee.

Jason Murray started following the idea "Improved social features in Boxee (neighbours, tagging, etc.)" in boxee.

Jason Murray replied on August 09, 2009 06:40 to the idea "Should be able to resume playback of a video" in boxee:

I'm really disappointed by the lack of attention to this basic feature. :( This is one of the reasons why I run XBMC on my AppleTV in preference to Boxee.

(7 months ago Idan said "soon" ... thats an odd definition of soon...)

A comment on the idea "Internationalization" in boxee:

Just because Plex doesn't run on Linux doesn't exclude it from the discussion, too. We're talking about features we want to see in Boxee. – Jason Murray, on May 25, 2009 20:31

Jason Murray replied on April 29, 2009 15:23 to the question "What are the chances of getting support for Hardware Acceleration of Boxee on the Nvidia Ion platform ?" in boxee:

It's about time Boxee starts going for platform-specific hardware acceleration. XBMC is headed this way, too.

Jason Murray started following the question "What are the chances of getting support for Hardware Acceleration of Boxee on the Nvidia Ion platform ?" in boxee.

Jason Murray replied on April 27, 2009 15:49 to the idea "Add list of currently functional app repositories" in boxee:

I say go with multiple, configurable (via ini files or whatever) authoritative repository list locations. Repositories of repository lists.

Jason Murray started following the idea "Add list of currently functional app repositories" in boxee.

Jason Murray started following the idea "simplify -- less is more" in boxee.

A comment on the idea "Enable FTP on ATV Boxee" in boxee:

SMB is the protocol used by Windows for file sharing, you'll probably hear it referred to as Samba.

You can set your (presumably Mac) desktop to share your files over the network, then just tell Boxee to browse the shared file.
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/...

That being said, I would assume Boxee can use another protocol (AppleShare, AFS, AppleTalk?) to pull the files off your Mac on-the-fly.

Apologies if I'm getting this wrong ... but FTPing a file to Apple TV just seems like too much hassle for me. I wouldn't want to pick something to watch then have to FTP it over. Hope this helps? :) – Jason Murray, on April 07, 2009 10:22

Jason Murray replied on April 07, 2009 08:46 to the idea "Enable FTP on ATV Boxee" in boxee:

Your comment "wired solution not practical" implies you're using wifi ... why not just share your files with SMB over wifi? No need to FTP at all, then.

Jason Murray replied on April 03, 2009 23:30 to the question "Support 1024x768 on the AppleTV?" in boxee:

I don't want to sound patronising when I ask this, but have you done video calibration so that boxee knows the boundaries of the screen within which it should be playing content?

Jason Murray replied on March 15, 2009 16:27 to the idea "Use Instant Messaging to send links to my Boxee" in boxee:

You could use Twitter for this.

Boxee can tweet, maybe it can listen too.

Jason Murray started following the idea "Use Instant Messaging to send links to my Boxee" in boxee.

Jason Murray replied on March 02, 2009 23:28 to the idea "sort by "date" for "browse" sources" in boxee:

Actually, there should be multiple sort fields available and Boxee should allow us to select our preferred default sort method.

Jason Murray started following the idea "sort by "date" for "browse" sources" in boxee.

Jason Murray replied on February 18, 2009 16:12 to the idea "Send suggested online media to friends (similar to StumbleUpon)" in boxee:

This is the next logical step from having friends on Boxee - interacting with them. Like it.

Jason Murray started following the idea "Send suggested online media to friends (similar to StumbleUpon)" in boxee.