How do I use Downloads?

[Jordan]

I'm afraid I'm going to sound like a hopeless noob here, but I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do with the Downloads area of Boxee. I'm assuming it's a BitTorrent interface, and I've seen hints around the forum that Boxee uses rTorrent internally. But what can I do with it? I can't figure out how to download anything with it. Ideally I'd like to be able to, from another computer, tell Boxee to start downloading something for me (and, ideally, automatically file it into the appropriate directory for me). But maybe I'm expecting too much? Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

[jaffer1979]

Thats the exact question I am looking for the answer to. I am not having any luck figuring out how the downloads work for bit torrent. I am using OSX 10.53. What I am currently doing for my video downloads is I use the RSS plugin for azureus torrent client to download all my shows from one custom rss feed i have setup. Then I watch them in Divx player or VLC etc. My ultimate solution would be to do this all in boxee. Is this at all possible? If I have to edit any config files or anything like that I am fine with that, but I would love in an ideal world to keep boxee running in the background like a tivo and whenever a .torrent is added to my rss feed have it automatically start downloading it then I can just sort by date and see what I have thats new in my list when I sit down.

[vulkan]

well - the downloads section is a built in torrent client (rtorrent).
you have a few ways to make use of it -
1. there is an rss feed of royalty-free torrents shipped with boxee (see "internet videos->video downloads" for example)
2. you can recommend torrents to friends (again - from the rss feed for example)
3. you can add other feeds - currently manually by editing sources.xml but on the next version (careful - spoiler...) you will be able to add them from ui (and from the web site too)
4. boxee is constantly "watching" a folder called torrent under your "Downloads" folder (~/Downloads/torrent) - whenever a torrent file is added to that folder boxee will automatically start to download it. you can "drop" files there and boxee will get them.
NOTE that the location of the watched folder will change in the next version.

have fun!

[Jordan]

4. boxee is constantly "watching" a folder called torrent under your "Downloads" folder (~/Downloads/torrent) - whenever a torrent file is added to that folder boxee will automatically start to download it. you can "drop" files there and boxee will get them.

Sweet!

On a slightly different topic, will Boxee be getting a web administration panel so I can control it remotely?

[vulkan]

On a slightly different topic, will Boxee be getting a web administration panel so I can control it remotely?

under construction
(meaning - maybe not for the next ver. but the one after...)

[edrock]

well - the downloads section is a built in torrent client (rtorrent).
4. boxee is constantly "watching" a folder called torrent under your "Downloads" folder (~/Downloads/torrent) - whenever a torrent file is added to that folder boxee will automatically start to download it. you can "drop" files there and boxee will get them.
NOTE that the location of the watched folder will change in the next version.

have fun!

where is this folder in linux/ubuntu?

[vulkan]

~/.boxee/torrent

and when the download is done its moved to: ~/.boxee/downloads

[blastactionhero]

is there some kind of "miro-functionality"
like add an rss feed for videos at youtube, and boxee automatically downloads them?


damn, i want to try boxee so i dont have to ask all hiss questions ...

[tsella]

@blastactionhero PM me with your email address for invite.

see http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php...ht=sources.xml for manually adding an rss feed. next version will allow you to do it via the ui, and soon via the web as well.

boxee will not auto download at this time, you can browse and stream. we generally support mrss and itunes standards for playing media present in an rss stream.

[harminoff]

I can't seem to get torrents to work in Ubuntu. Am I suppose to create these folders, as I don't see them in any directory.