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sastian
October 29th, 2008, 02:06 PM
seems that they have move to a flash model as opposed to a windows .exe

seems ripe for the pickin.. or integration :)
poprock
October 29th, 2008, 02:16 PM
Agreed, would be nice to get Joost on board.
Thom 98
October 29th, 2008, 02:17 PM
Joost would be awesome! Especially since it's not US-only!
agentlame
October 29th, 2008, 02:28 PM
from: http://press.joost.com/2008/10/joost_launches_webbased_video.html


Joost also is working with a number of third-party platforms, including Boxee, chumby, Delicious, Digg, FriendFeed, Lifestream, Meebo, Mister Wong, Netlog, Netvibes, reddit and VideoSurf, to make it easier for people to use and access Joost across the web. In addition, Joost will implement Facebook Connect, which allows people to enjoy Joost within the context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook.
poprock
October 29th, 2008, 02:31 PM
Great news, well spotted!
jeckle
October 29th, 2008, 05:10 PM
I was in Joost beta back in the day and I used it for a while , while i didnt have cable tv at the time and would watch most shows via Joost. The only problem i saw is that they had a lot of just poor content mixed with some good, lot of out dated stuff. I havent used it since.
alienmeatsack
October 30th, 2008, 11:55 AM
I'd also like to see Joost added. While their content can be a mixed bag, I say ANY source added into Boxee = more choices. :)
DGMurdockIII
October 30th, 2008, 06:19 PM
even better than a news story here is where you can find info on the joost api http://www.programmableweb.com/api/joost and on that site you can find api to any site even if it very hard to tell if they have on there website
agentlame
October 30th, 2008, 11:49 PM
even better than a news story here is where you can find info on the joost api http://www.programmableweb.com/api/joost and on that site you can find api to any site even if it very hard to tell if they have on there website

dude... that a cool site!

thank you so much for that link. i've really got to bone-up on my python.
simonlucy
December 4th, 2008, 08:50 AM
even better than a news story here is where you can find info on the joost api http://www.programmableweb.com/api/joost and on that site you can find api to any site even if it very hard to tell if they have on there website

That site seems to bounce to Orange eventually, anyway the full RESTful api for Joost is at www.joost.com/doc/api not all the requests require login but most do.

Simon Lucy
dc2447
January 8th, 2009, 05:58 PM
Bump: Joost is in the new release
rjfurlan@gmail.com
January 9th, 2009, 02:30 PM
I don't see what the big deal about Joost is, at least in the US it sucks. It works ok for me in Boxee (AppleTV, MacBook). The problem I have is the video quality is very poor and the aspect ratio is wrong. I think it has something to do with Joost being in the UK and the PAL standard. For example watch NCIS on Joost and on CBS. On CBS it plays and looks good. On Joost it is jerky, low quality, and has the wrong aspect ratio.
dc2447
January 9th, 2009, 02:35 PM
I don't see what the big deal about Joost is, at least in the US it sucks. It works ok for me in Boxee (AppleTV, MacBook). The problem I have is the video quality is very poor and the aspect ratio is wrong. I think it has something to do with Joost being in the UK and the PAL standard. Except it isn't...
rjfurlan@gmail.com
January 9th, 2009, 02:42 PM
Except it isn't...

Thanks, that really cleared up the problem for me.
dc2447
January 9th, 2009, 02:44 PM
Thanks, that really cleared up the problem for me. I was just correcting your disinformation.

Joost is American.
rjfurlan@gmail.com
January 9th, 2009, 02:54 PM
I was just correcting your disinformation.

Joost is American.

OK, thanks. I thought it was based in London. I see it has branches in London, The Netherlands, and the US. Either way, am I the only one whose aspect ratio is wrong when playing things from Joost on the AppleTV?
fmsthree
January 20th, 2009, 10:42 PM
Why don't I have joost? I'm a recent alpha user.
PHermas
January 20th, 2009, 11:10 PM
Why don't I have joost? I'm a recent alpha user.

upgrade to the latest version 0.9.7.4825 released jan 8th.
fmsthree
January 20th, 2009, 11:43 PM
Thanks for the response. I'm not sure how to go about it since I had to do a force install on my 64bit machine and was just following directions. I did

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.6.4578.intrepid.deb

so I thought I'd try

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.7.4825.hardy.deb

but no joy.
agentlame
January 20th, 2009, 11:50 PM
Thanks for the response. I'm not sure how to go about it since I had to do a force install on my 64bit machine and was just following directions. I did

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.6.4578.intrepid.deb

so I thought I'd try

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.7.4825.hardy.deb

but no joy.

here you go:
http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.7.4826.intrepid.deb