Latest beta (0.9.20.10408) impressions

[vdubeau]

Since a lot of complaints/problems are registered here, thought I would add some positive.

The scanning in the latest beta has vastly improved, especially on TV shows. It went much quicker and recognition was much better. A few minor new issues which I will put up in the spreadsheet. One big issue with MASH (TV) which I previously put up still remains.

Out of 537 movies Boxee found 523 of them and only got 2 wrong (already up in the spreadsheet).

I know people want everything perfect, but for beta software and a re-write I find this to be pretty impressive.

Kudos to the developers.

[newcolour]

A positive comment? No no no no no, sir, this is not the right place. Only obnoxious complaints are accepted here :P

Sorry, I couldn't help it


S.

[vdubeau]

A positive comment? No no no no no, sir, this is not the right place. Only obnoxious complaints are accepted here :P

Sorry, I couldn't help it


S.

Oh, sorry. Then Boxee sucks (just kidding )

[TomyLo]

I had no idea there's was an update... haha... installing as we speak... a little excited

Can anyone post the updates? What bugs have they fixed and improved?

[adam0]

I don't know specifically what was changed between 261 and 408 (release notes only cover 9.20.xxxx and doesn't cover each release but it does seem to be getting better. I run Boxee on win XP and since first installing the beta every time I started Boxee up it popped up the "we screwed up and now need you to click ok so we can close" box (which I used to just stuff in the corner so you could only see a pixel of it) this new version takes care of this error for me. Also when I first installed the 408 it wouldn't load my tv shows, so I did a clean uninstall delete everything and reinstall new version, re-added my shares and scanning was done in a few hrs. (that may seem long, but that's about 120 shows and 150 movies so i can easily live with letting it do its initial scan over night.) Getting better Boxee, keep up the fantastic work.

[NomadDNA]

I don't know specifically what was changed between 261 and 408

Here's the improvements since r102xx

- crash on youtube and iplayer search
- crash on background scanning (due to rar file manipulation) - need to verify with users
- mangled graphics on osx with some nvidia cards - need to verify with users
- crash on slideshow (in some cases when switching pictures)
- hang on playback from abc
- flash 10.1 related issues (was not playing some sites)
- slightly faster launch time for video and flash playback
- ability to cancel playback while it initializes (progress bar running)
- lastfm was frequently stopping after the first song
- hangs and crashes on mms streams (e.g. radio time)
- crash on some corrupted rar files (while scanning in background)
- crash on shutdown when in the middle of ip scan (network)
- crash on picture slideshow (osd related)
- sporadic crash when iterating over network interfaces
- crash on decoding of some images
- crash on malformed flac files (malformed metadata tags)
- win32: crash on shutdown - when direct-sound was not closed correctly
- osx: secondary screen was not functioning well (connect/disconnect scenarios)
- win32: auto-upgrade was broken
- win32: boxee didnt launch if it was places in the windows "startup" folder
- video resolver optimizations and improvements
- cache image loaded from large-texture-manager to make image (e.g. in recommendation popup) appear immediately
- open action-dialog on all history items to enable removing from history (e.g. in case of pictures)
- open action-dialog on pictures from queue so that those can be removed
- support for utf-16 subtitles (from xbmc)
- right-click behavior (should now act as "back" from anywhere in the screen, including from lists)
- main menu was appearing and disappearing immediately when launched using right-click
- extra click required to get out of screen saver
- win32: merged fixes to milkdrop from xbmc (nicer visualizations)
- korean translation

[adam0]

Here's the improvements since r102xx

Thanks for the info! In the future is there somewhere we can go to get this ourselves or do we just have to bother the mod's until one posts it like you were kind enough to do?

[NomadDNA]

It should be released with each build...

This last release was a "silent release..." Very silent

[adam0]

It should be released with each build...

This last release was a "silent release..." Very silent

I'll say. I only knew about it because I check the downloads page almost as often as I check the forums. Would be nice if those of us who aren't in the private tester club could join a mailing list or something, or maybe Boxee itself could let us know there's a newer version to try. But again, thanks for the info.

[lettcco]

having trouble downloading 10408...is there a alt. server?