chupa
September 20th, 2008, 08:02 AM
Well, It's first time I trying the Boxee and here is my initial thoughts
The installation went well and fast and the application starts fast on my ALU 24", 2,4GHz 4Gig of RAM iMac and the interface is reasonable clean and responsive.
The first thing I did was to add my home network sources which contains my videos, tv shows, musiv etc which also went OK.
When it was time to try to watch one of my videos ( or listen one of my music albums) the application crashed after a minute and I was forced to start it again.
Now the things which went bad after 1st restart: if I wanna go to configure my settings the configuration text is gone, I can't see anything but the green bar but the explanation text is gone everywhere in the settings.
I tryed to restart the app but it isn't helping and I can't get the text back until I do reinstall boxee.
But my biggest concern is that I lose the keyboard control and can't quit or hide boxee if I wanna do something else while I listening music and it's crucial and it's one of the basic function I want to be able to do ! I don't like to lose the control over my mac os x and I don't wanna be forced to restart the computer if the application crashes badly.
I'm currently using Plex and it can correspond to my keyboard commands (cmd+q and cmd+h )and I hope you can implement this basic function in the Boxee.
It's all I can write about boxee for now but it seems to be an promising media player and it has a big potential if you can keep its clean interface :)
The installation went well and fast and the application starts fast on my ALU 24", 2,4GHz 4Gig of RAM iMac and the interface is reasonable clean and responsive.
The first thing I did was to add my home network sources which contains my videos, tv shows, musiv etc which also went OK.
When it was time to try to watch one of my videos ( or listen one of my music albums) the application crashed after a minute and I was forced to start it again.
Now the things which went bad after 1st restart: if I wanna go to configure my settings the configuration text is gone, I can't see anything but the green bar but the explanation text is gone everywhere in the settings.
I tryed to restart the app but it isn't helping and I can't get the text back until I do reinstall boxee.
But my biggest concern is that I lose the keyboard control and can't quit or hide boxee if I wanna do something else while I listening music and it's crucial and it's one of the basic function I want to be able to do ! I don't like to lose the control over my mac os x and I don't wanna be forced to restart the computer if the application crashes badly.
I'm currently using Plex and it can correspond to my keyboard commands (cmd+q and cmd+h )and I hope you can implement this basic function in the Boxee.
It's all I can write about boxee for now but it seems to be an promising media player and it has a big potential if you can keep its clean interface :)