Nazim
November 3rd, 2008, 10:14 PM
I just downloaded boxee and must say that I'm incredibly impressed. The interface is nice (although I wish it defaulted back to the most recent submenu or other interface location...).
I watched a couple of episodes of the Daily Show from ComedyCentral.com. The image was slightly more grainy than I would have wished, but I don't think there's much boxee can do about that. I'm guessing it's either my mediocre DSL or the original content that's not very HD.
Two problems I noticed that might be fixable:
1) The streaming video did not buffer enough before it begun playing. Both episodes hiccuped a couple of times at the beginning.
2) The play/pause control had little or no effect on the streaming video. I think it might have paused the first episode the first time I used it, but it didn't ever after that. The problem was also that the grey bar on the lower part of the screen, with all the options, would not go away. My guess is that the software thought the video was paused, even though it was not. But I have no real idea.
I saw a screensaver option, with no possibility of fully disabling it. I hope it's automatically disabled when video is playing.
Apologies if this was already covered. I looked around a bit, but could not find a thread addressing this issue. I probably could have looked harder, but it's late, and I wanted to put down the issues before I went to bed. Thanks for the amazing product. I'm looking forward to the beta.
I watched a couple of episodes of the Daily Show from ComedyCentral.com. The image was slightly more grainy than I would have wished, but I don't think there's much boxee can do about that. I'm guessing it's either my mediocre DSL or the original content that's not very HD.
Two problems I noticed that might be fixable:
1) The streaming video did not buffer enough before it begun playing. Both episodes hiccuped a couple of times at the beginning.
2) The play/pause control had little or no effect on the streaming video. I think it might have paused the first episode the first time I used it, but it didn't ever after that. The problem was also that the grey bar on the lower part of the screen, with all the options, would not go away. My guess is that the software thought the video was paused, even though it was not. But I have no real idea.
I saw a screensaver option, with no possibility of fully disabling it. I hope it's automatically disabled when video is playing.
Apologies if this was already covered. I looked around a bit, but could not find a thread addressing this issue. I probably could have looked harder, but it's late, and I wanted to put down the issues before I went to bed. Thanks for the amazing product. I'm looking forward to the beta.