mplayer or vlc alternative.

**darcilicious** · June 30th, 2010, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Kcsims

just have boxee have the ability to be a launcher for those apps, still using boxee to have cover art / meta data / etc, but after selecting the movie, select to play in an external player.

I understand time frames are something that is not given out on fixes, but as many requests as there have been for this lately (not just from me :P ) I would to hear something.

Well, here's an unofficial answer: probably not going to happen. The Boxee team has to prioritize and I just can't imagine they'd spend the time on something like this rather than fixing the Boxee native player. But that's just my opinion.

**Kcsims** · June 30th, 2010, 07:45 PM

Kinda disappointing to hear that. I understand that they have to prioritize, but I don't see it taking too long to stick in an external launcher, that's just me. I may have to start looking into other front ends for the time being.

**darcilicious** · June 30th, 2010, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by Kcsims

I may have to start looking into other front ends for the time being.

I for one run a total of four "front ends" because I have yet to find my silver bullet:

1) SageTV / HD-PVR for recording / playback most of my recorded 1080i content

2) Boxee for online and some (but not all recorded) content (can't play back my 1080i .ts files from SageTV/HD-PVR without some serious aliasing in window'd mode; long standing issue)

3) Windows Media Center 7 as the front end to my Hava Wireless HD tuner -- SageTV barely plays these files and I don't think Boxee even recognizes .wtv files currently

4) iTunes for my music collection

**Kcsims** · June 30th, 2010, 09:39 PM

Sad part is boxes would be my silver bullet if not for this mkv thing. I hate not being able to use boxes for hd content, but vlc / wmp do it just fine. Simple external launcher would solve all problems.

**darcilicious** · June 30th, 2010, 09:43 PM

Keep in mind, too, that not everyone has the problem that you're experiencing. I have zero issues play 1080p mkv files.

**Kcsims** · June 30th, 2010, 09:58 PM

Maybe the 64bit os makes the diiference. I may try win 7 64 and linux this weekend to see if it makes a difference. I thought from all the posts it was more widespread.

**darcilicious** · June 30th, 2010, 10:06 PM

I would guess GPU hardware and/or drivers make the biggest difference. What are your system specs again? (OS, CPU, and GPU).

I'm certainly not saying that it's not a problem for folks but it's not a problem for everyone either

**Kcsims** · June 30th, 2010, 10:14 PM

Windows 7 32bit
E6600 dual core 2 ghz-ish(don't remember the exact clock)
4 gig ram
Ati hd5750 1gig ram

Just like most of the other people with this problem, everything works fine in other players, just not boxee.

It actually makes me wonder why the developers decided to write their own internal codec instead of just installing another or letting the user choose which codec / player.

**BuckoA51** · August 9th, 2010, 05:53 AM

Sad that this isn't going to happen it would make Boxee a much more useful front end, no player comes close to the flexibility of Zoom Player for most media types.