valid protocols for media sources

[Brian]

So I've got boxee running. Let me first say, it is absolutely awesome!

quick specs:
MiniATX mobo: ICH5 chipset
ATI Radeon 9600 with fglrx drivers
2GB RAM
Snapstream firefly RF remote via lirc
OS running off of an 8GB flash drive (I hate the sound of hard drives)
DVI to HDMI cable connected to a 50" mitusu running at 1920x1080i.
compiled under Fedora 9 first then switched to Ubuntu for easy updates.


I setup auto login and boxee auto start so when the computer boots it automatically loads boxee. It works great so far.


My current question is, what are the valid media sources/types?

The "Add manually" screen doesn't show a brief description of supported network protocols.

Does it support:

NFS Mounts
Local paths (which could ultimately be an NFS mount)
HTTP URLs (with or without basic authentication, will boxee popup a dialog box asking for http credentials?)
Samba/CIFS

[agentlame]

The only one I'm not sure about is HTTP.

I have personally worked with the others.

It also supports RSS/Podcast(rss://), mythTV(myth://) and shoutCAST(shout://).
Aswell as custom plugins/scripts for parsing webages(plugin:// script://).


I would recomend giving your sources.xml a once-over: ~/.boxee/UserData/profiles/[boxee-user-name]/sources.xml

[Brian]

Thank you,

I'll take a look.

[vulkan]

smb:// and mms:// are also supported.

[tsella]

and also mrss and itunes compatible rss using rss:// for audio and video.

regarding nfs, if you mount the partition on the host operating system, you can use that as a local path under boxee (and btw, we do not recommend doing the same with smb as it hinders performance under that protocol)

oh, and upnp://

[Gamester17]

See:
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Types_of_Media_Sources
and
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Adding_Media_Sources

;)

[Brian]

Thank you,

I will attempt a soft NFS via autofs.


-Brian