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 Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: Boxee Announces Public Alpha for Mac and Apple TV Users |
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Boxee Announces Public Alpha for Mac and Apple TV Users
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Posted by: Glenn
Boxee today released the first public alpha of their media center software for Mac and Apple TV users. New applications in this release include Joost, MTV Music, and the BBC iPlayer for users in the UK. It also includes new keyboard support and numerous bug fixes and enhancements. The specific changes are all listed down below. Boxee also launched developer.boxee.tv today, which provides basic guidelines for developers who want to build apps to run on Boxee.
The new keyboard support includes:
- CMD + TAB - lets you switch to other Mac apps (even when boxee is in full screen)
- CMD + F - toggles between Window mode and Full screen.
- Shift + letter - jump to the place in the list that starts with that letter (e.g. shift+h will save you a bunch of clicks to get to Heroes on Hulu)
The bug fixes and enhancements include:
- Dual screen support
- Netflix streaming improvements
- Search in Hulu
- Fast forward, rewind, pause in Comedy Central
- Improved mouse support
- 3 digits episode numbers recognized
- Giving folder.jpg its proper priority
- Updates to SMB library
- Updates to video and audio playback libraries
- Updates to Flash player
http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1115.html
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Ben Tex
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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This application keeps getting better and better and better. 
By the way, I was listening to the MacBreak Weekly 122 podcast from Macworld the other night and someone mentioned he was running Boxee on a Mac mini with Hazel and a Drobo. I don't have a Drobo, but it sure sounded like a cool setup. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| I could be missing something within Boxee, but is there a way to stream the higher quality Hulu videos? I was just streaming some Office and 30 Rock episodes and they looked horrible. |
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| Zalez wrote: | | I could be missing something within Boxee, but is there a way to stream the higher quality Hulu videos? I was just streaming some Office and 30 Rock episodes and they looked horrible. |
You need to go into your Hulu account and change the video setting to automatically default to the 480p stream. That's in the "Privacy and Settings" -> "Personal Settings" in your profile. Then you just login into you Hulu account through Boxee.
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Question!!!
Does hulu Stream through it's own application or through a quicktime plugin.
The reason i ask is i tried hulu at a higher setting and the video still looked like garbage.
it kept distorting |
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Zalez
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| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| curt wrote: | | You need to go into your Hulu account and change the video setting to automatically default to the 480p stream. That's in the "Privacy and Settings" -> "Personal Settings" in your profile. Then you just login into you Hulu account through Boxee. |
I thought that I read something about it automatically defaulting to the 480p stream, but then I wasn't sure if it played them at all. Your suggestion appears to have done the trick though. Thanks Curt! |
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zen
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it just me or does it seem a lot like Joost? |
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SlipperyRock
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| zen wrote: | | Is it just me or does it seem a lot like Joost? |
I haven't looked at Joost in a while, but I don't remember it having all of these services or functionality. |
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Mr.187
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| Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:51 am Post subject: |
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At last the BBC iPlayer on my ATV, just what was needed.
Does anyone know how to get the a high picture quality on iplayer for the ATV?
Keep up the good work.
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Mr.187
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Also for people running it in the UK and unable to access content in the states when running from Mac, if you download and run hotspot shield that gets around the problem.
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