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Andreas Setterlind replied on July 16, 2009 07:37 to the question "Setting boxee proxy before login" in boxee:
Boxee (and XBMC) does not yet support proxies, see this feature request: http://getsatisfaction.com/boxee/topi...-
A comment on the idea "Spotify and/or Grooveshark support in Boxee" in boxee:
Yeah I noticed that the Elisa Media Center (now renamed to "Moovida") plugin for Grooveshark is written in python, which is the same scripting/programming language that Boxee (and XBMC) uses for its plugins/scripts/apps addons, so maybe that code that be ported to Boxee (and XBMC), any python developers our there like to give it a try?
That mentioned Grooveshark Plugin for Elisa/Moovida can be download here:
http://www.moovida.com/plugins/
For Boxee (and XBMC) python API's checkout:
http://developer.boxee.tv
and:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Python_De... – Andreas Setterlind, on July 16, 2009 07:34 -
Andreas Setterlind replied on June 18, 2009 07:18 to the idea "Ways to differ between real duplicates and files of various quality 720p, 1080p etc" in boxee:
FYI; Boxee is based on XBMC Media Center source code, and XBMC just got this function earlier this week, read here:
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2009/06/15/med...
...though this new feature in is not yet 100% complete it has gone into XBMC's mainline SVN for further optimization tweaking and bug hunting to hopefully have the function stable enough for the next point release of XBMC. At that point I guess that Boxee only need top copy this code from XBMC to Boxee if they like to have the same feature.
You can again read much more about it here: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?...
Took a long time but at least XBMC got the basic function now for this! -
Andreas Setterlind replied on June 05, 2009 07:44 to the question "OnLive, Steam, Impulse, and/or StreamMyGame Streaming Games content-delivery support in Boxee" in boxee:
LGP (Linux Game Publishing) Gets Into Game Downloading, Rentals
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page...
ast year Linux Game Publishing launched their own game copy protection system to combat pirating of the games they port to Linux and now they have announced another fundamental change. At last, Linux Game Publishing will be making their games available by electronic download and they are also launching a game rental service.
LGP's download service is not being offered directly to gamers but instead to their resellers, which they will then likely make available to the customers. The first games they will be making available under this download system are Sacred Gold, X3: Reunion, and Jets 'n' Guns.
Similarly, they will be offering game rentals through their resellers where one can purchase an access key that will allow them to play their LGP game(s) for a week or a month at a time, before the service becomes deactivated. Presumably this will be at a lower cost, but the prices have not been announced as of yet.
These two announcements were made this week by Linux Game Publishing.
http://blog.linuxgamepublishing.com/2...
Linux Game Publishing aims to bring top quality Linux games to market by providing a reseller channel for both ports of games from other platforms and for new games.
LGP business depends on two main things to be successful
* A good flow of new top quality games to publish.
* A strong reseller channel, both online and in physical locations.
http://linuxgamepublishing.com -
Andreas Setterlind asked a question in boxee on May 25, 2009 12:25:
OnLive, Steam, Impulse, and/or StreamMyGame Streaming Games content-delivery support in BoxeeOnLive, Steam, Impulse, and/or StreamMyGame Streaming Games content-delivery support in Boxee
OnLive (onlive.com), Steam (steampowered.com), Impulse (mpulsedriven.com), and StreamMyGame (streammygame.com) are just four content-delivery services that are available now for streaming games live to lower end computers. So if Boxee had a built-in OnLive client or supported a third-party OnLive deamon client library then Boxee users would be able to rent video games directly from Boxee on-demand, and only pay per hour or have a monthly subscription.
"OnLive is an on-demand video game platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in 2009. The service is a gaming equivalent of cloud computing: the game is synchronized, rendered, and stored on a remote server and delivered online. The service was announced to be compatible with any Windows PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista, or any Intel-based Mac running OS X. A low-end computer, as long as it can play video, may be used to play any kind of game since the game is computed on the OnLive server. For that reason, the service is being seen as a strong competitor for the console market. Thus, Engadget states that "Broadband connections of 1.5 Mbps dials the image quality down to Wii levels while 4-5 Mbps pipes are required for HD resolution." The average broadband connection speed in the US at the end of 2008 was 3.9 Mbps, while 25% of US broadband connections were rated faster than 5 Mbps. It was announced that Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Epic Games, Atari, Codemasters, THQ, Warner Bros., 2D Boy and Eidos Interactive have signed up to have their PC games available on the service. Sixteen game titles are currently available from the OnLive service. The service is currently in closed beta with plans to have an open beta during the summer of 2009. The service is planned for release in the winter of 2009".
"Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of the world's most popular games. Steam is set apart from its peers in terms of functionality primarily by its residency in the system tray, and the desktop tasks that the client software performs to make use of that position".
"Impulse is a digital distribution and multiplayer platform developed by Stardock and is the successor of Stardock Central. It is used to digitally distribute and manage games and software primarily from Stardock and its affiliates which includes Epic Games, THQ, AVG, Iolo Technologies, Gas Powered Games, Hothead Games, Ironclad Games, Meridian4 and many others".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive
http://www.onlive.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)
http://store.steampowered.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_(content_delivery)
http://www.impulsedriven.com/
http://www.streammygame.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-demand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_... -
A comment on the question "Labeling HD content in Boxee?" in boxee:
This feature should hopefully soon come to XBMC Media Center, see:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?...
If you know C++ then you can help with the source code patch:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5154 – Andreas Setterlind, on May 13, 2009 08:11 -
A comment on the idea "Online Backup Service for Media and Other Files" in boxee:
I am not suggesting that a majority would pay to backup even 10GB of MP3 music files, but instead think about your 1GB of digital photos that you taken yourself with your digital camera.
I bet to would be very sad if you lost your digital photographs that you taken yourself as those you can not get back if your harddrive breaks and you have no backup, or worse if your house burns down and you have no off-site backup!
You would then not mind paying an monthly insurance for keeping this pictures safely backuped online if that happened once in your life? – Andreas Setterlind, on April 28, 2009 07:12 -
A comment on the idea "Online Backup Service for Media and Other Files" in boxee:
Would you not like a off-site backup of your digital photographs / pictures that have taken with your digital camera?
...forget about music and video files as those are most certainly to large to pay for online backup of, I am not suggesting that anyone would backup those online.
I bet to would be very sad if you lost your digital photographs that you taken yourself as those you can not get back if your harddrive breaks and you have no backup, or worse if your house burns down and you have no off-site backup! – Andreas Setterlind, on April 28, 2009 07:07 -
Andreas Setterlind replied on April 28, 2009 06:38 to the problem "Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty crash to desktop on start. Using ATI 9100 IGP" in boxee:
Just try the latest (closed source) drivers you can find from ATI that does support the 9100IGP, ...all I am saying here is that you can not use the open source drivers with Boxee, they will not work.
Sad to hear that you have never heard of XBMC; Boxee is based on XBMC Media Center source code, which means that all limitations and bugs that XBMC has so does Boxee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee#Li...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC -
Andreas Setterlind replied on April 27, 2009 14:06 to the problem "Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty crash to desktop on start. Using ATI 9100 IGP" in boxee:
Are you using the very latest (closed source) restricted drivers from ATI?
Could be the same issue as this:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6382 -
Andreas Setterlind marked one of Andreas' replies in boxee as useful. Andreas replied to the idea "64-bit Boxee". Andreas Setterlind and 7 other people think it's one of the best replies.
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Andreas Setterlind shared an idea in boxee on April 27, 2009 07:17:
RSYNC file synchronization with portable MP3 players and over the network (à la iTunes to iPod / AppleTV)I like to suggest that Boxee implement remote replication support.
Since Boxee installed on the Apple TV, on a HTPC, or similar set-top-box type setup almost always have at least the option to add an internal harddrive and be able to directly download video/audio files to that harddrive from the internet, and also be able to play files directly of portable MP3-players and network-shares. How about implementing a feature similar to iTunes synchronization, the way iTunes user can select which files and folder (or playlists/podcasts) to sync onto their iPod or Apple TV box, but Boxee could take it one step futher and have the user be be able to chose to either use Boxee or the MP3-players/network-shares as the master on a file/folder basis. Data files could be be backed up to Boxee with real-time synchronization or schedule backup from multiple computers (and NAS products) in remote locations.
This would enable users to for example use Boxee as their main docking-station for their MP3-player (or portable video/media-player) and synchronize it on-demand in the living-room.
This would also enable it to function as a sort of backup feature, to always keep an up-to-date copy of the media content of your Boxee 'box' on a network-share, (or vice verse if you will as well, I can imagine that many people would love to keep two copies of some media that they usually store on their computer, such a digital-camera photos/pictures, and this would enable them to have one copy on their Boxee 'box').
You could also have an option to automatically keep two Boxee 'boxes' synchronized, if you own two in the same house.
In addition this would enable users to do what I sometimes do, and that is take their Boxee 'box' (and the media stored on it) along to a party.
As for the technical aspect of this, I'm not sure if there is a better open source utility than rsync for it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
http://rsync.samba.org
Maybe a advanced options could be included as well like for example the ability to define full path to rsync local and remote to allow weekly backups, etc.
rsync -a --delete /mnt/D1/Daily/ /mnt/D1/Weekly/ -
Andreas Setterlind shared an idea in boxee on April 27, 2009 06:55:
Online Backup Service for Media and Other FilesBoxee (or third-party addons for Boxee) could offer a service that charge is off-site online backups via an extension of this features, kind of like a Apple Time Capsule remote backup server but the backup stored on the internet instead.
Users could in Boxee select which files/folders they wanted to keep synchronized and up-to-date backup of off-site, and those files would automatically get uploaded to a internet storage server hosted by Boxee or a third-party. Then users would choose which payment plan to use, fixed price per GigaByte or a flat-fee up to a tier or their choosing (for example Tier-1 = 100MB, Tier-2 = 250MB, Tier-3 = 500MB, etc.). Perhaps even the first 100MB for free and you only get changed if you exceed that, or if you try to exceed it you get a pop-up asking you if you like to sign-up with credit card or not to be able to store more.
Again, I'm sure many users would love a such service if it was presented in a simple and secure way (encryption for internet transfers/backups), ...I'm thinking especially of digital-camera photos and also documents (word files, etc.).
Mozy is just one out of many companies offering a similar online backup services:
http://mozy.com
More about the concept of remote backup service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_b...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-site...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Online Backup Service Roundup in PC Magazine ("The Best Online Backup Services"):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,...
Carbonite Online PCBackup
Carbonite tries to make remote backup simple and affordable. Setting it up is a breeze, and restoring a file here or there is also a snap. But restoring a lot of data to a different PC presented some obstacles.
HP Upline
This easy-to-use, reasonably priced online backup service also lets you do local media backups and file sharing, but it lacks important features, like version saving, open-file backup, and the ability to resume interrupted file uploads.
IDrive
Getting started with IDrive might be more confusing than with any other online backup service, but IDrive partly redeems itself with quick uploading and many extras not found elsewhere.
MozyHome Online Backup
Mozy offers reasonably priced unlimited online backup that's highly configurable, but it could stand some usability improvements.
SOS Online Backup (beta)
SOS Online Backup is the only online backup service I've tested that's both simple to use and powerful. Even non-geeks can painlessly back up their folders and files, but the service also gives the more technically inclined an impressively powerful set of features to play with. Note: we got a sneak peek of this service toward the end of its beta-life. -
Andreas Setterlind asked a question in boxee on April 24, 2009 14:48:
When will Boxee begin focusing on Scandinavia?Today it is clear to see that Boxee is only focusing on the USA (United States of American) user base, which is easy to understand as it is a large demographic and simpler when everyone is located in the same country and speaks the same language, ...however it should then by that way of thinking be even simpler to 'conquer and dominate' a smaller country
I read somewhere that Boxee is next planing on focusing on the UK (United Kingdom) and later Germany, but my question on this is when if Boxee going to focus on the Scandinavian countries, (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland), and why not market Boxee to Scandinavia after North American?
I think that it will be far easier to get the majority of Scandinavian people hooked on Boxee than it will be to get a majority of North Americans to use Boxee. In Scandinavia people can afford to buy a Boxee box, almost all people have high speed broadband (10Mb+) and are very perceptible to early adoption of new technology, ...plus there are not many competing product, (at the moment there is only Tvix and Popcorn Hour), there is no TiVo or ReplayTV or other major players to compete with, yet there are loads of language specific online content available. So Boxee would definitely quickly be a big hit in the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland).
Facts to back this up:
Here is Google search trend for "XBMC":
http://www.google.com/trends?q=xbmc&c...
Top Regions for "XBMC" searches on Google:
1. Sweden
2. Norway
3. New Zealand
4. Australia
5. Netherlands
6. Canada
7. Finland
8. Taiwan
9. Denmark
10. United Kingdom
and Google search trend for "boxee" is very similar
http://www.google.com/trends?q=boxee&...
Top Regions for "boxee" searches on Google:
1. United States
2. Norway
3. Israel
4. Canada
5. Sweden
6. Denmark
7. Australia
8. United Kingdom
9. Netherlands
10. Spain
Even more demographics and statistics:
http://www.quantcast.com/xbmc.org
http://www.quantcast.com/boxee.tv
PS! Plex (plexapp.com) has now also reported that there are more Plex Media Center users per capita in Sweden than any other country, (they compiled this data by looking at the automated update requests from Plex):
http://elan.plexapp.com/2009/04/23/re...
My advice to Boxee; divide and conquer, focus on the small countries as well!
Best wishes on behalf of all Swedish beta users. -
Andreas Setterlind replied on April 24, 2009 10:02 to the question "XBMC <3 PPC... Boxee next?" in boxee:
Follow => http://getsatisfaction.com/boxee/topi...
Boxee has according to that no plans on implementing PowerPC support :(
...I agree with Michael, old G4 Mac Mini should be great for Boxee :) -
Andreas Setterlind replied on April 24, 2009 09:49 to the question "Labeling HD content in Boxee?" in boxee:
No, it is currently not possible to flag or sort by High Definition content in Boxee.
Though this feature should hopefully soon come to XBMC Media Center, see:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?...
and source code patches:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5154
As Boxee is based on XBMC, Team Boxee can then choose to import this code.
...if you know C++ then you can help CapnBry with the source code patch! -
Andreas Setterlind replied on April 23, 2009 16:22 to the idea "Boxee for Mac on PowerPC (PPC) CPU and Mac OS X" in boxee:
FYI; XBMC Media Center 9.04 (Babylon) Beta 1 has now been released!
Hot on the heals of the XBMC 9.04 Alpha 1 release, and some 350 code fixes later, the first (and only?) Beta release of XBMC Media Center 9.04 (codename: Babylon) is now available.
New in this release is support for PPC (PowerPC) processors under Mac OS X, thanks to Team-XBMC’s new developer Beenje.
Full story found here: http://xbmc.org/blog/2009/04/23/xbmc-... -
Andreas Setterlind started following the idea "Be able to "disable" content that is not available in your area." in boxee.
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A comment on the idea "Boxee for Mac on PowerPC (PPC) CPU and Mac OS X" in boxee:
That is correct, ...Boxee for Linux on PPC (PowerPC) is an entirely different issue and should therefor be a separate feature request "idea ticket", ...though once XBMC for Mac has been fully ported to PPC it should be much easier to port XBMC for Linux to PPC than it would be porting it from scratch from x86, most of the PPC specific code can be reused for Linux, and vice versa if XBMC for Linux would have been ported to PPC first. – Andreas Setterlind, on April 21, 2009 05:27 -
A comment on the idea "Boxee for Mac on PowerPC (PPC) CPU and Mac OS X" in boxee:
Please at least do some basic research before you posts statements like that!
1. You are wrong; Boxee for Mac on PowerPC (PPC) would mostly be targed against the Mac Mini G4 PowerPC which all have VGA output port which supports more and higher resolutions than S-Video, and practically all plasma and LCD televisions/displays available have VGA input port support, (so there is not need for using old the S-Video standard).
VGA connector as it is commonly known (other names include RGB connector, D-sub 15, mini sub D15 and mini D15) is a three-row 15 pin DE-15:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_conn...
2. You wrong again; AVI is not a codec, AVI is a container, a container which can contain almost any type of encoded video and encoded audio streams. XBMC and Boxee uses the FFmpeg open source codec and demuxer suit which support all popular codecs and formats (and supports, x86, PowerPC, ARM, SPARC, Alpha, ect. processors and more), XBMC and Boxee has a FFmpeg based player built-in meaning it will play all videos and audio files out-of-the-box. XBMC and Boxee does not use QuickTime in anyway, so there is not dependence on QuickTime in anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee#Vi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#Vid...
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=DVDPlayer
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Codec_and...
Mac mini makes a kick arse HTPC (Home Theater PC) for the living-room just as it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_mini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTPC
Google is you friend, and so is Wikipedia :P – Andreas Setterlind, on April 20, 2009 18:19
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