kine
August 6th, 2008, 09:14 PM
Sorry for so many threads, but i want this to get better. :p
A couple more bugs i've noticed:
1. The 'Show hidden files and directories' option appears to have no effect as far as i can tell. Whether it's checked or unchecked, boxee shows all files. This includes system directories like /bin, /etc, and /var (these all show up in the Add New Source file browser). It also shows hidden directories in the folder browser when looking through sources. For example if i go to Music and then Local Music, it shows the GarageBand and iTunes folders, which are both folders that i have hidden using the command 'SetFile -a "V"'. See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8789/hiddenzh5.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
2. boxee has random issues creating thumb-nails for videos. Every once in a while, it will refuse to create a thumb-nail for a certain video (displaying instead a little video-camera symbol). Restarting boxee or navigating around other folders and then returning to the problem video usually will fix this.
3. If you create enough thumb-nails boxee seems to just quit making them altogether. I was navigating through all my TV-show directories, trying to force boxee to make thumb-nails for them, and eventually it just stopped completely. It would only display the video-camera symbol for every video after a certain point. Restarting was the only way to fix it. After a while (maybe like five- or six-dozen videos) it stopped again. Again, only way to fix was to restart.
4. boxee will not create thumb-nails for OGM videos at all, although it will play them. Every OGM video i have shows up as blank (it doesn't even give me the usual video-camera symbol). See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/2571/ogmqy7.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
5. boxee crashes at specific points in certain videos. I can restart boxee and watch the same video over and over and over, and it will always crash at exactly the same frame. VLC and QuickTime don't have this problem. I'm still working on how wide-spread and reproduceable this is.
6. Attempting to seek ahead in certain videos causes boxee to encounter an EOF and kill the video entirely. VLC and QuickTime don't have this problem. See attached skip.txt for log entries related to this behaviour.
7. Subtitle support is totally sporadic:
- 90% of the time it won't display the (built-in) subtitles at all in OGMs. When it does display them, it only shows like one line at a time, several seconds early or late, and it stays on the screen for up to 20 or 30 seconds at a time.
- When watching a video that has idx/sub subtitles in two different languages (Chinese and English in this case), boxee recognises that there are different subtitles, and lets you choose between them, but it essentially combines both languages together when rendering them. See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7969/chinesegh7.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
- boxee doesn't appear to support SSA subtitles (maybe this is a feature desired rather than a bug).
- When playing with the subtitle settings (usually the subtitle language), boxee starts playing the video at double-speed for a couple seconds. The audio continues at a normal pace and they eventually synch back up.
- boxee's rendering of subtitles is inconsistent. I know some types of subtitles are hard-coded to render in a certain font or colour, but i don't know, boxee appears to change its mind a lot. Compare this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8563/font1ij6.jpg), this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2043/font2nt4.jpg), this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6034/font3ix6.jpg), and this image (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7969/chinesegh7.jpg). (These are all soft subs, not burnt into the video.) I don't know about VLC or the original XBMC, but it seems to me Media Player Classic has overcome this limitation, because whenever i watch videos at work the font is pretty consistent. Maybe this also is an enhancement desired rather than a bug?
(As before i'm running Leopard 10.5.4 with the latest boxee on an aluminium iMac.)
A couple more bugs i've noticed:
1. The 'Show hidden files and directories' option appears to have no effect as far as i can tell. Whether it's checked or unchecked, boxee shows all files. This includes system directories like /bin, /etc, and /var (these all show up in the Add New Source file browser). It also shows hidden directories in the folder browser when looking through sources. For example if i go to Music and then Local Music, it shows the GarageBand and iTunes folders, which are both folders that i have hidden using the command 'SetFile -a "V"'. See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8789/hiddenzh5.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
2. boxee has random issues creating thumb-nails for videos. Every once in a while, it will refuse to create a thumb-nail for a certain video (displaying instead a little video-camera symbol). Restarting boxee or navigating around other folders and then returning to the problem video usually will fix this.
3. If you create enough thumb-nails boxee seems to just quit making them altogether. I was navigating through all my TV-show directories, trying to force boxee to make thumb-nails for them, and eventually it just stopped completely. It would only display the video-camera symbol for every video after a certain point. Restarting was the only way to fix it. After a while (maybe like five- or six-dozen videos) it stopped again. Again, only way to fix was to restart.
4. boxee will not create thumb-nails for OGM videos at all, although it will play them. Every OGM video i have shows up as blank (it doesn't even give me the usual video-camera symbol). See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/2571/ogmqy7.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
5. boxee crashes at specific points in certain videos. I can restart boxee and watch the same video over and over and over, and it will always crash at exactly the same frame. VLC and QuickTime don't have this problem. I'm still working on how wide-spread and reproduceable this is.
6. Attempting to seek ahead in certain videos causes boxee to encounter an EOF and kill the video entirely. VLC and QuickTime don't have this problem. See attached skip.txt for log entries related to this behaviour.
7. Subtitle support is totally sporadic:
- 90% of the time it won't display the (built-in) subtitles at all in OGMs. When it does display them, it only shows like one line at a time, several seconds early or late, and it stays on the screen for up to 20 or 30 seconds at a time.
- When watching a video that has idx/sub subtitles in two different languages (Chinese and English in this case), boxee recognises that there are different subtitles, and lets you choose between them, but it essentially combines both languages together when rendering them. See here (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7969/chinesegh7.jpg) for a screen-shot of this.
- boxee doesn't appear to support SSA subtitles (maybe this is a feature desired rather than a bug).
- When playing with the subtitle settings (usually the subtitle language), boxee starts playing the video at double-speed for a couple seconds. The audio continues at a normal pace and they eventually synch back up.
- boxee's rendering of subtitles is inconsistent. I know some types of subtitles are hard-coded to render in a certain font or colour, but i don't know, boxee appears to change its mind a lot. Compare this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8563/font1ij6.jpg), this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2043/font2nt4.jpg), this image (http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6034/font3ix6.jpg), and this image (http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7969/chinesegh7.jpg). (These are all soft subs, not burnt into the video.) I don't know about VLC or the original XBMC, but it seems to me Media Player Classic has overcome this limitation, because whenever i watch videos at work the font is pretty consistent. Maybe this also is an enhancement desired rather than a bug?
(As before i'm running Leopard 10.5.4 with the latest boxee on an aluminium iMac.)