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uncle hammy
December 27th, 2009, 07:15 PM
I just got my Beta invite today, and I am VERY impressed. I do have one issue and one suggestion...

Issue: On my Karminc 64bit installations, none of the Network streams seem to work. When I have the option of ABC/Fox/NBC or Hulu, I MUST pick Hulu. ABC just gets stuck with a looping progress bar. NBC just gets stuck with a Peacock "progress" bar. Fox goes to a white screen, from which there is no coming back from, other than ssh into the machine and rebooting.

On my Windows 7 & Vista installations, similar problems, though better failing. NBC works! ABC & Fox both go to the website however, the video doesn't load because they both are asking to have their players installed. Presumably the Linux installs are running into the no player problem with ABC/Fox as well, however they aren't handling it very well...especially Fox.

Suggestion: There should be a way to load the home "quick" menu from anywhere. For me, I use an MCE remote, so ideally I would like to be able to press the "Windows" button and have that home menu pop up. I don't like having to hit menu or escape a few times before I finally get it.

pblack00
December 27th, 2009, 07:21 PM
On my Windows 7 & Vista installations, similar problems, though better failing. NBC works! ABC & Fox both go to the website however, the video doesn't load because they both are asking to have their players installed. Presumably the Linux installs are running into the no player problem with ABC/Fox as well, however they aren't handling it very well...especially Fox.


I was able to install the players, not through Boxee, but went to the website using FireFox. Then restarted Boxee and the content played mostly fine (some issues with pop-ups). Note this was on a Windows XP HTPC.

pblack00

uncle hammy
December 27th, 2009, 07:32 PM
Yeah, I thought of that. To be honest, I am more concerned with the Linux side of things. All my dedicated HTPC's are Linux installs. The Fox/ABC players can't be installed on Linux. Therefore, it would probably be nice to eithe rnot offer the options when I try to watch House, or at the very least fail in some way that allows me to recover.