3vil
October 23rd, 2008, 10:03 PM
i have looked around for answers and have not found anything for at least my first issue here.
so i was ecstatic to find you guys added a way to add feeds... too bad when i try to play one it chokes. seems every time i try to play an m4v, boxee treats it as an audio file and make HORRIBLE loud sounds (and my girlfriend looks at me all pissed off, to which i reply "well... it's an alpha..."). i really don't see why this is an issue - xbmc plays them (if i remember correctly, xb has been disconnected for a while). i'm having this issue on both my macbook (intel 2.2GHz, santa rosa) and my apple tv (shipped with version 1.1, updated to 2.2) with the latest boxee on both.
another issue i'm having is with the damned meta data. i'll give you an example: earlier this year, trent reznor (NIN) released a high quality and complete copy of a video bootleg circulated in the 90s known only as "broken" or "the broken video". boxee wants to call it "Broken (2006)". i go in, say wrong movie, movie, "broken (1992)" and add. ok, it disapears from my library. whatever, i assume it will come back... next time i launch boxee, "Broken (2006)" appears again. done it 6 six times now.:mad:
we need some way to manually override some of the meta data. if a movie or show comes up without a cover and uses a screen shot (and the one it picks is black), it annoys me. if i could manually fix that, awesome. the organization is kind of a pain too... another example, a certain british tv show about cars... they have some specials (usually between series), as far as i'm concerned, those specials should be filed under that show. it would also be nice if i could select "tv shows / animation" or something of the sort - subheadings. if only there was a way i could tell boxee to browse my media in "folder" mode, meaning in the (very organized) way it's laid out on my (network) drive.
further still, there are many files boxee simply ignores. i have some that are in 2 parts - i expect an issue there...
thanks in advance and i'm still pretty excited about the software - i think it's the most likely candidate for "the media center i've been looking for" award.
so i was ecstatic to find you guys added a way to add feeds... too bad when i try to play one it chokes. seems every time i try to play an m4v, boxee treats it as an audio file and make HORRIBLE loud sounds (and my girlfriend looks at me all pissed off, to which i reply "well... it's an alpha..."). i really don't see why this is an issue - xbmc plays them (if i remember correctly, xb has been disconnected for a while). i'm having this issue on both my macbook (intel 2.2GHz, santa rosa) and my apple tv (shipped with version 1.1, updated to 2.2) with the latest boxee on both.
another issue i'm having is with the damned meta data. i'll give you an example: earlier this year, trent reznor (NIN) released a high quality and complete copy of a video bootleg circulated in the 90s known only as "broken" or "the broken video". boxee wants to call it "Broken (2006)". i go in, say wrong movie, movie, "broken (1992)" and add. ok, it disapears from my library. whatever, i assume it will come back... next time i launch boxee, "Broken (2006)" appears again. done it 6 six times now.:mad:
we need some way to manually override some of the meta data. if a movie or show comes up without a cover and uses a screen shot (and the one it picks is black), it annoys me. if i could manually fix that, awesome. the organization is kind of a pain too... another example, a certain british tv show about cars... they have some specials (usually between series), as far as i'm concerned, those specials should be filed under that show. it would also be nice if i could select "tv shows / animation" or something of the sort - subheadings. if only there was a way i could tell boxee to browse my media in "folder" mode, meaning in the (very organized) way it's laid out on my (network) drive.
further still, there are many files boxee simply ignores. i have some that are in 2 parts - i expect an issue there...
thanks in advance and i'm still pretty excited about the software - i think it's the most likely candidate for "the media center i've been looking for" award.