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OctopusInc
October 11th, 2008, 12:10 PM
It would seem as though there is a maximum character limit for the URL field for manual source additions. I was copying an pasting RSS feeds into Boxee, but after I save them (successfully) I came later only to see that they had been truncated/sanitized. This is probably why they weren't working.

As an aside, I was trying to do this to add my own video download resource (can you say TVRSS.net), but Boxee does not have an option that designates what TYPE of source it is. Needless to say this didn't work. I am using Miro now to retrieve content but I see that RTorrent is built in. Why can't we get to the the settings for that, or the queue for any of the video downloads? I would like to see some of the features of Miro added to Boxee, but minimally we should be able to tell the program what type of source we are adding, and then be able to manage the download/buffer for that content.

agentlame
October 11th, 2008, 12:34 PM
regarding the first one, do you have a buffalo terastation?
i know there have been some issues with it:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=712&highlight=buffalo
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=677&highlight=buffalo

also, there is some work being done on a tvrss plug-in, here: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=661

OctopusInc
October 11th, 2008, 12:43 PM
I'm using a Time Capsule and a Motorola SurfBoard.

marcel
October 12th, 2008, 03:35 AM
we have opened a bug report on this issue..thanks for the report.

OctopusInc
October 12th, 2008, 05:59 PM
Right on! You guys are really attentive to the community, and I am stoked that you care so much about your BA app.

OctopusInc
October 12th, 2008, 06:01 PM
Oh, by the way, I explored this further. It would appear that this is more of a display thing and less about the info. When I navigate to the source for a brief second I actually see the whole URL flash so it must have all been saved.

The readout just truncates the URL in the edit menu.

marcel
October 13th, 2008, 01:51 AM
but is it working ...:)