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Boxee - 0.9.14.6992

Media hub with integration to local and streamed sources.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	0.9.14.6992
Release Date:	2009-07-31
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,461
Downloads (all versions):	3,177

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Product Description:

On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from services like Netflix, MTV, Pandora and flickr.

What's new in this version:

General

Fixed: Under some circumstances, digital audio of a video does not work.
Fixed: Sound distortion for DTS 2.0.
Fixed: Digital output on OSX ("check your settings" error message).
Fixed: Unable to launch Boxee with remote.
Fixed: Crash when selecting Settings menu.
Fixed: Black screen instead of video playback.
Fixed: Dual screen
secondary screen showing white, then crash.
Fixed: Win32 window resize when switching between full screen and windowed mode.
Fixed: User/password of an SMB share was sometimes shown in path (media action and info screens).
Fixed: Apple TV grainy video problems.
Fixed: Apple TV crash if setting render method to software.
Fixed: Support for ATI graphic cards.
Fixed: Media Library
resolving fails with the error PCRE: Match limit reached.
Added: Updated Spanish translation
Fixed: Mac OS X boxeeservice is now silent and does not print out to terminal on focus change.
Fixed: Incomplete HTTP transfers causing crashes.

Formats and Playback

Fixed: Playing certain AVI files crashes.
Fixed: Mac OS X crash when skipping forward on an MKV container with embedded subtitles.
Fixed: Browsing to a folder with corrupt video file crashes.
Fixed: Crashes when changing multiple subtitles during video playback.
Fixed: RAR compressed video files identified as pictures.
Fixed: Crashed due to corrupt subtitles files.
Fixed: Issues with audio buffering during video playback.

Applications

Fixed: Some applications appear twice
Fixed: Pandora crash after opening lyrics and fast forwarding.
Fixed: Pandora shutdown after clicking Next a few times.
Fixed: BBC iPlayer 1.3 label.
Fixed: Hulu search.
Fixed: Netflix browsing too fast.
Fixed: BoingBoing audio sync issues under Windows.
Fixed: We Are Hunted audio tracks playback under Windows.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel

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At least the best of all these alpha-release media software - Version: 0.9.14.6992, 10/28/2009 05:59AM PST

Emilia

I think its now more than 4 years in my quest for a decent media center software on my Mac Mini. I tried a lot and so far I always turned back to Frontrow. For Boxee however I will leave it at least installed on the Mac though it cannot replace Frontrow to full extend:

- as many of these media center solutions it is labeled "alpha" and it will probably stay that for ever...

- it comes with yet-another micro-social-network share idea which forces you to "subscribe". However its easy and you can disable most of it.

At first test it was surprisingly stable and had nice feature like labeling all my local TV-series episode automatically. But after some months use crashes are becoming more frequent.

Boxee like other programs promise you easy access to online media, video sites, RSS feeds etc. Its doing fine with popular feeds like Revision3 but fails most of the for user selected feeds. This is not really a surprise as most RSS subscription to video feeds do *not* work with external software but are designed to be displayed in Web-Browsers.
Also the promising build-in Torrent client did not work for me at all. Providing Torrent RSS feeds picked the right files but never managed to download anything.

So for the moment I keep it on the Mac and hope for an update (last version already 5 months old).

BEWARE! BAD INSTALLER HOSES CRITICAL SYSTEM LIBRARY - Version: 0.9.14.6795, 7/27/2009 02:17PM PST

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summerstormpictures

AFTER INSTALLING THIS VERSION OF BOXEE, I WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON MY HARD DRIVE FOR LEOPARD 10.5.7! THIS BOXEE INSTALLER DELETES THE CONTENTS OF THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER AND LEAVES ONLY THE BOXEE PACKAGE RECEIPT. THE ONLY WAY I WAS ABLE TO RESTORE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY WAS TO COPY THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB/ FOLDER OVER FROM ANOTHER MAC, SET PERMISSIONS CORRECTLY TO ROOT-ADMIN AND THE PERMISSIONS REPAIR CAPABILITY RETURNED. THIS IS NOT THE PROPER WAY TO DO THIS, HOWEVER, BUT CONSIDERING THAT A PRE-SNOW LEOPARD 10.5.8 UPDATE IS PROBABLY COMING AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, THIS WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW. THIS IS A CRITICAL THING. I VERIFIED IT BY RUNNING IT ON THE OTHER MAC, BUT BACKING UP THE /LIBRARY/RECEIPTS/DB FOLDER FIRST, WATCHING IT GET HOSED AND THEN MOVING MY BACKED UP CONTENTS BACK.

Boxee Rocks! - Version: 0.9.11.5774, 7/26/2009 09:29AM PST

libertyforall1776

This is like Apple TV for regular Macs, and it's so much more functional than Front Row -- even better with the free Boxee iPhone/iPod Touch Remote app!

All we need is live OTA (Over The Air) TV streams, and I would be really happy