Justin.tv App

**tdhz77** · August 28th, 2009, 03:56 PM

Hmm, not getting sound on my macbook pro. Anybody else?

**lostmyshape** · August 28th, 2009, 05:49 PM

just wanted to chime in with a thank you. i freaking love having justin.tv on Boxee. absolutely fantastic.

also a quick possible bug: after you play a channel it shows up in your recently played videos on the home page. however, you cannot play them by selecting them from recently played. you only get a "read more" button and no "play" button. not a big deal at all, but thought it might help to mention it.

thanks again!!!!

**smuthers** · September 2nd, 2009, 07:16 PM

Is there any way to get the volume controls to work?
I find this app in particular far louder than other boxee apps.

**jgw1977** · September 3rd, 2009, 02:25 PM

Fantastic App - good job!

**ikeg** · September 6th, 2009, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by smuthers

Is there any way to get the volume controls to work?
I find this app in particular far louder than other boxee apps.

Unfortunately, there is a limitation of boxee at the moment that prevents the volume controls from working on Flash content. See here.

Ike

**ikeg** · September 6th, 2009, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by lostmyshape

just wanted to chime in with a thank you. i freaking love having justin.tv on Boxee. absolutely fantastic.

also a quick possible bug: after you play a channel it shows up in your recently played videos on the home page. however, you cannot play them by selecting them from recently played. you only get a "read more" button and no "play" button. not a big deal at all, but thought it might help to mention it.

thanks again!!!!

I've looked into this behavior, and it stems from the way that Justin.tv obscures the location of their flash player on their website. All the addresses for the full screen flash player look like "http://www.justin.tv/#channelname#/popout" where Justin.tv's server hides the actual filename of the flash player. Because of the weird naming convention, Boxee's history reader won't accept it as a valid address, and then prevents the user from playing the file. I will attempt to talk with the Boxee folks to see if the offending function FileItem::IsVideo() can be modified in a future Boxee release to make an exception for Justin.tv URLs.

Ike

**ikeg** · September 6th, 2009, 08:40 PM

Update: Version 1.05 of the Justin.tv App has been released.

Apparently Apple's archive utility automatically generates an unwanted "__MACOSX" directory which has been installing into the /UserData/apps directory without my knowledge. This does no harm to Boxee, but is annoying. My app is now being packaged without this directory.
The "Media Action" dialog that pops up when you tell a channel to play has been enhanced. It now shows an image of the channel thumbnail and the channel description, which is a heck of a lot more interesting than "TV."

**lostmyshape** · September 7th, 2009, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by ikeg

I've looked into this behavior, and it stems from the way that Justin.tv obscures the location of their flash player ...

Ike

absolutely no problem at all... just wanted to make sure you were aware of it. i love, love, love this...

any plans for adding a search? there are "channels" that i can find in a browser that don't come up in the category i'd expect them to. also, any way to just type in the name of a channel we know exists? can we view passworded channels?

thanks!!!!

**lostmyshape** · September 7th, 2009, 01:15 AM

Originally Posted by ikeg

Update: Version 1.05 of the Justin.tv App has been released.
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hmm... just tried to load the new version on Ubuntu. i removed the app and then tried to reload it. the App Box tells me "Could not load application." any ideas why?

**ikeg** · September 7th, 2009, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by lostmyshape

hmm... just tried to load the new version on Ubuntu. i removed the app and then tried to reload it. the App Box tells me "Could not load application." any ideas why?

Have previous versions of the app been working on Ubuntu? I didn't know anybody had even tried it...

As of this afternoon, my app has been placed in Boxee's official repository-- it's possible that Boxee is getting confused by the same app being listed in two separate locations. I'll try removing it from my repository so you can see if that solves the problem. I'll still keep my repository around for an upcoming app that will make a lot of people very happy...

Ike

Edit: You haven't had Boxee running for a while have you? AFAIK, Boxee only updates the data in the App Box after it is restarted, so it may have been pointing to the outdated version which is no longer on my server...