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nalthien
January 23rd, 2009, 08:08 PM
Hi Team Boxee,

I'm curious as to what technical hurdles need to be crossed to get ABC enabled in a Windows build. I've been poking around in the source tonight but I can't find anything seemingly related to ABC playback.
agentlame
January 23rd, 2009, 09:20 PM
the technical hurdle is implementing a wrapper for movix player in bxflplayer-win32.
nalthien
January 23rd, 2009, 09:58 PM
the technical hurdle is implementing a wrapper for movix player in bxflplayer-win32.

Thanks for the clarification. Being that I haven't seen either the source of bxflashplayer or the Move Networks API; I have no idea of the complexity of such a task--but I'm sure Team Boxee has it under control.
bmoura
January 25th, 2009, 01:40 AM
the technical hurdle is implementing a wrapper for movix player in bxflplayer-win32.

OK. Will we see other Move Networks sources in Boxee once the wrapper for Windows is complete ?
agentlame
January 25th, 2009, 03:02 AM
OK. Will we see other Move Networks sources in Boxee once the wrapper for Windows is complete ?

neither movix player, nor bxflplayer are open-source.
nalthien
January 25th, 2009, 11:05 AM
neither movix player, nor bxflplayer are open-source.

I think he meant "Will we see other content providers who use the movix player in Boxee?"

My answer is: depends on the content providers--but at the very least that technical challenge will have been met.
agentlame
January 25th, 2009, 12:06 PM
I think he meant "Will we see other content providers who use the movix player in Boxee?"

My answer is: depends on the content providers--but at the very least that technical challenge will have been met.

duh... missed the 'other' in that sentence. :o

take two:
yes... that is part of boxee's--long term--plans. the player for discovery channel also uses movix, and the team has said that is a planned addition.
more here: http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/11/21/you-told-us-what-you-want-now-we-need-to-make-it-happen/