problems with Boxee

[debianprime`]

Hello all,
I installed boxee a couple of weeks back and have been using it happily, attached to my TV.

I even went so far as to have Boxee in my start folder to run when windows starts.

Yesterday, it suddenly stopped working. Now, whenever I try to run boxee, I get the following error message:

Creating 3D video Device failed.
Boxee requires Direct X 9.0C and above.
Please make sure your video drivers are up to date.

Boxee shows as version 0.9.20.10711

I updated my video drivers, full windows update, and reinstalled directx 9.0C.

I still get the same error.

My computer is a P4 1.8Ghz (single core), 1.25Gig of Ram, ATI Radeon 8500 video card. I am running Windows XP professional, with service pack 3.

Do I have to go back to the Alpha version? is it all borked up because of directx?

[NomadDNA]

Have you upgraded your DX drivers?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...a-9b6652cd92a3

Try downloading this

[debianprime`]

Thanks for the thought, but that's where I had gone to reload Direct X 0.9c prior to my original post.

Just to be safe, I went ahead and tried it again, but no luck. Still getting the same error.

[kpm13579]

I am having this exact same problem!

Boxee was working just fine for a while, then a friend of mine gave me some AVIs that I couldn't play, so I installed a handful of codecs until it played correctly.

Now everytime I restart my computer, Boxee tries to start on launch, and I end up with this error.



The weird part is, once I click OK and the error message goes away, I can launch boxee just fine and everything seems to work.

I have run Windows Update, I have re-installed DirectX 9.0c (the same one linked above), and I have re-installed my video drivers (nvidia ion), I even un-installed all the codecs!

This is the system I am using:
http://www.asrock.com/nettop/overvie...el=ION%20330HT

Intel Atom 330 1.6GHz
2GB RAM
Windows 7 64 Bit

[marcel]

I even went so far as to have Boxee in my start folder to run when windows starts

This is the issue Boxee will not run from the start folder please try to launch it from the desktop or under C:/Programs

[nomad64]

This is the issue Boxee will not run from the start folder please try to launch it from the desktop or under C:/Programs

I believe the poster was saying that he placed a shortcut in the Startup folder (so the program is being run from its installed location).

As far as the error you two are getting...I have seen where Windows goes bonkers and "forgets" that DirectX is installed. This isusally because some .dll file is missing or not being registered for some reason. A reinstall usually fixes this.

If you go to Start > Run and type "dxdiag" (with no quotes), does it bring up the DirectX Diagnostic Utility? If it does, run some of the tests under the "Display" tab to make sure it is working correctly.

You can also try digging around in the Boxee logs to get more information as to why it is generating that error message.

See this thread for turning on debugging mode: http://support.boxee.tv/forums/49599/entries/43963

Try turning on debugging, and launching Boxee (which will fail, but it will still generate the log). Then attach the log in a reply.

Hope this helps!

[rsava]

This is the issue Boxee will not run from the start folder please try to launch it from the desktop or under C:/Programs

Ah, that explains why mine just did this today. Windows updates from Bill and his Redmond minions forced a restart.
I am assuming this is because Boxee has to wait for DirectX drivers to load.

Anybody played around with a batch file to delay start Boxee?

I need something kind of foolproof for when I am out of town and the box reboots like it did this morning. I would get a phone call that Boxee is broken and then I would have to have the discussion about turning cable back on (OH! The horrors!).

R Sava

[darcilicious]

Yes somewhere in this Windows forums it's been discussed how to set up a delay. Search on "start menu" maybe?

[nomad64]

Anybody played around with a batch file to delay start Boxee?

I need something kind of foolproof for when I am out of town and the box reboots like it did this morning. I would get a phone call that Boxee is broken and then I would have to have the discussion about turning cable back on (OH! The horrors!).

R Sava

Windows XP does not have any "sleep" command which would be nice so you could set the number of seconds to wait before launching Boxee. You can try something like the below code (which uses "ping" to emulate sleeping)

ping -n 15 localhost
start "c:\Program Files\Boxee\boxee.exe"
exit

You can adjust the number after -n to increase the amount of time Windows spends pinging itself. Use a rough estimation of half a second per ping.

The other option is to download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit and use "sleep.exe" from it. Put the sleep.exe into windows\system32 folder, then adjust the batch file to:

sleep 15
start "c:\Program Files\Boxee\boxee.exe"
exit

Where the value after sleep is in seconds.

Which ever you use, create the batch file (name it something like boxee.bat), and place that in your startup folder.

Hope this helps!

[rsava]

Yes, that does help. I was thinking of using the ping method. I am using Win 7 though and I saw (after I posted of course) the stuff in this post:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17214

I'll play around and if I stumble upon something I'll post back...

R Sava