Linux Hardy Install feedback

[johninsj]

Nice integration with Synaptic, download/install a breeze and very "Ubuntu" friendly.

Boxee runs successfully on box, performance reasonable (ATI video card - suffers from flashing in windowed mode, pretty clean fullscreen... flashing is, at least for me, a driver issue with ATI)

Video playback fails... shows only upper left corner of screen. I normally need to use X11 Video output to get clean video out of the ATI card in apps like vlc on this box. I'll try my laptop with an nvidia card next...

I accidentially alt-tabbed off of boxee, that wasn't pretty. Had to keep alt-tabbing and pressing down arrow until it responded, showing it had regained focus, even though it was on top. I have been hitting tab to get out of full screen, minimizing, and then typing up this post as I went along... somehow hit alt-tab. Badness... I'm lost!...

Generally, looks very interesting and very good - was able to set up links to friendfeed and twitter, did not see any place to enter my login credentials to Last.fm (would be nice to scrobble if I play songs in boxee...)

Was able to add local sources for music and video (large library of mp3s, large collection of recorded TV shows from my pvr, in mpeg format) and it's doing a pretty amazing job of grinding through all of it.

User interface is, er, interesting. I'm hoping it will grow on me.

That's the 10 minute feedback, more later! I've also got a mac mini that is available for experimentation, eventually will get it installed there.

Very interested in developing for/on boxee - looks like a great platform!

[agentlame]

Welcome to Boxee!

The settings for both YouTube and Last.fm are in their respective screens, under settings.

So:
Music > Last.fm > Options > Settings.

@ Boxee Devs
Perhaps the settings menu for all of Boxee would be a good place to add a centralized credentials screen?

[johninsj]

Welcome to Boxee!
Perhaps the settings menu for all of Boxee would be a good place to add a centralized credentials screen?

thanks... but I can enter some creds here (well, there) on the boxee profile website. I was kinda expecting more/all settings there.

Also, man - I know you got this gui from xmbc, but is it ever totally non-intuitive. I honestly had no idea I could even "navigate" up to the little box on the upper right of the screen (the date/weather to set local, *and* the "now playing" when playing audio...) man... anyway, that has nothing to do with linux ;)

So I vote (if I get a vote) for more centralized settings on the web site - I have a chumby, and doing all the config on the web is way better then dealing with that device's horrid UI of tapping stuff in... this is kinda the same.

[agentlame]

Wow... That's a good idea!

+1 for configuring YouTube, Last.fm, etc from the account page. Forget my idea.

[johninsj]

Followup... 2nd install on laptop with nvidia card. Looks very good, none of the display issues as with the machine with the ati card.

[johninsj]

Capitan's Log: Supplemental...

I'm mighty confused about the media ;)

I've got a boatload of mpeg2 video (analog tv capture) spread around the ol' home network

Boxee doesn't really like it all that much :(

On MacOS, it can actually play the SD/mpeg2 files on another linux server, but chokes and dies on an XP server that also contains .ts HD transport stream captures (I posted that on my MacOS post)

The linux Boxee happily indexes the media on the XP box, but chokes and refuses to play any of the mpeg2 files that the MacOS version happily plays. In other words, Ubuntu Hardy boxee will do everything but play video.

I can play those very video files on that machine just fine in vlc, totem, movie player, etc...

Happy to turn on debugging/logging and post back whatever it spits out, if someone wants and tells me what to do.

Oh, and beware boxee on a laptop. Mine was pretty toasty even with the fan full blast as it built all the little thumbnails from the shared media. Might want to pace that out a bit when there are hundreds (or thousands :( ) of new files to catalog/nail...

Ok, I'm off to play with some tribbles....

[agentlame]

First, props for "Captin's Log"

As far as logs, on Linux it's:
/tmp/[username]-xbmc.log

[marcel]

@ johninsj

Thanks for the report ...forwarded your ideas to our product team...

create a debug log (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=377) and pm it to me..

we are aware of some issues(opened a bug report) with the linux version not playing all video formats ..

[riegersn]

Just to clear this up, boxee (linux) does not currently support Transport Stream MPEG-2 Video Stream (.ts) ? Is this correct?

[bigfatdummy]

riegersn,

Marcel posted a reply to my thread on this topic


here is a list of boxee supported formats..

Supported formats/codecs:


Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA)


Container formats: AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS (beta support)


Video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (SP and ASP, including DivX, XviD, 3ivx, DV, H.263), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264, including Nero Digital), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, QuickTime, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak,


Audio codecs: AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.


Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA


Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer


enjoy

[w1bmw]

A lot of the FTA satellite receivers save to transport streams. It would be super to see these played by boxee without having to convert them. Great little application, either way, though