Boxee resolved movie totally wrong

StevenR · #1 November 21st, 2009, 05:24 PM

Boxee resolved the 1959 movie "House on Haunted Hill" completely incorrectly. This was saved as "House_on_Haunted_Hill.avi", so Boxee should have identified it correctly. However, the movie was actually identified by Boxee as "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms". I cannot fathom (pun most definitely intended!) how Boxee could have confused the two movies.
This is in the Mac version of Boxee, and it was downloaded from the Public Torrents feed. Does this make any difference?

DPK · #2 November 21st, 2009, 07:21 PM

You might have to be more specific in your file name since there are actually two "House on Haunted Hill" movies. There's one from 1959 and one from 1999.

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=House+On+Haunted+Hill

Try naming it:
"House_on_Haunted_Hill_1959.avi"

If that fails, check out:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=5214

Also in regards to:

Quote:

Originally Posted by StevenR

This is in the Mac version of Boxee, and it was downloaded from the Public Torrents feed. Does this make any difference?

Do you mean Boxee was downloaded from "Public Torrents" or the movie? I'd recommend downloading Boxee from boxee.tv. This ensures that you have the latest version of it.

StevenR · #3 November 22nd, 2009, 03:31 AM

Thanks, I'll try your suggestion about the naming.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DPK

Do you mean Boxee was downloaded from "Public Torrents" or the movie? I'd recommend downloading Boxee from boxee.tv. This ensures that you have the latest version of it.

I downloaded Boxee from boxee.tv, what I meant was that I used the built in torrent download function in Boxee to download the movie from the Public Torrents feed which is included in Boxee (I think only in the Mac and Linux versions).

Update: I've tried it with the file named "House On Haunted Hill (1959).avi" with exactly the same result. Can AVI files contain any metadata which Boxee can read? This is the only possible reason I can think of currently, although a manual Recognize does list the correct movie.

jeff_perez · #4 February 12th, 2010, 03:56 PM

Thank you people I feel myself lucky to read this post. and seven you riht this only in Mac and Linux versions.