How To: Enable Root Telnet on Boxee Box!

[s.macneill]

It's in the same file, it's under the defaultvideo subsection:

<defaultvideosettings>
<interlacemethod>0</interlacemethod>
<scalingmethod>1</scalingmethod>
<noisereduction>0.000000</noisereduction>
<sharpness>0.000000</sharpness>
<viewmode>0</viewmode>
<zoomamount>1.000000</zoomamount>
<pixelratio>1.000000</pixelratio>
<volumeamplification>0.000000</volumeamplification>
<outputtoallspeakers>false</outputtoallspeakers>
<showsubtitles>false</showsubtitles> <-- there she be
<brightness>50.000000</brightness>
<contrast>50.000000</contrast>
<gamma>20.000000</gamma>
<audiodelay>0.000000</audiodelay>
<subtitledelay>0.000000</subtitledelay>
</defaultvideosettings>

[TreeBeard]

excellent, i think i was able to resolve two things i wanted.

*edited to add full path*
/data/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml

modified the buffer for local lan to 4MB instead of 2MB (streaming wifi... not reliable)

<cachevideo>
<dvdrom>2048</dvdrom>
<internet>4096</internet>
<lan>4096</lan> <--- was 2048

and i didnt like that subtitles were automatically on all the time. i was able to turn them off... by default.

<showsubtitles>false</showsubtitles> <--- was true

Thanks!
The keymap xmls are interesting too, as is the root-boxee.log - now I know why a vid fails!

[KennethC]

excellent, i think i was able to resolve two things i wanted.

*edited to add full path*
/data/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml

modified the buffer for local lan to 4MB instead of 2MB (streaming wifi... not reliable)

<cachevideo>
<dvdrom>2048</dvdrom>
<internet>4096</internet>
<lan>4096</lan> <--- was 2048

and i didnt like that subtitles were automatically on all the time. i was able to turn them off... by default.

<showsubtitles>false</showsubtitles> <--- was true

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. These two things alone have greatly increased my viewing happiness with Boxee.

[Govnah]

Made the changes but when I rebooted they changed back....Any ideas?

excellent, i think i was able to resolve two things i wanted.

*edited to add full path*
/data/.boxee/UserData/guisettings.xml

modified the buffer for local lan to 4MB instead of 2MB (streaming wifi... not reliable)

<cachevideo>
<dvdrom>2048</dvdrom>
<internet>4096</internet>
<lan>4096</lan> <--- was 2048

and i didnt like that subtitles were automatically on all the time. i was able to turn them off... by default.

<showsubtitles>false</showsubtitles> <--- was true

[s.macneill]

i rebooted mine and checked, i'm in the same boat. premature celebration i guess hah

[aiiee]

Usually , in linux, that's because you are editing the wrong file. Perhaps with a .cfg extension or similar. The correct file is around somewhere, and in an editable form, you just have to find it. If grep works, you can search the files for likely suspects.

[KennethC]

Usually , in linux, that's because you are editing the wrong file. Perhaps with a .cfg extension or similar. The correct file is around somewhere, and in an editable form, you just have to find it. If grep works, you can search the files for likely suspects.

The only other reference I could find to "showsubtitles" is in the Boxee application itself, which is compiled. Hmm.

[TreeBeard]

You are editing in the right place, it's just that the system defaults are written back upon boot. We just got to keep poking around for a bit.

[aiiee]

You are editing in the right place, it's just that the system defaults are written back upon boot. We just got to keep poking around for a bit.

If they are being rewritten on boot, that's the wrong file. There is a config file that sets that xml on boot. *That's* the file to be editing. Since that xml most likely only gets read on boot, editing that file may well accomplish nothing.

[KennethC]

If they are being rewritten on boot, that's the wrong file. There is a config file that sets that xml on boot. *That's* the file to be editing. Since that xml most likely only gets read on boot, editing that file may well accomplish nothing.

It actually gets read on login, not boot.

I am guessing that since the Boxee application "/opt/boxee/Boxee" has an instance of "showsubtitle" and it isn't a user configurable field, it gets written to the guisettings.xml with a hardcoded value. I'm also guessing that the values that ARE considered user-configurable are read from either another file or a database field and placed into the XML file on boot.

I did the following:

"grep -r subtitle /*"
"grep -r showsubtitles /"'
"grep -r Subtitle /*"

And nothing's obvious.