Asus eee PC

**jhauer** · May 16th, 2009, 12:09 PM

Has anyone tried the Windows version on the Asus eee PC? I just picked up a model 1000HE. Pretty cool except for XP. Is the Windows version of boxee compatible with XP? If so, I'd love to download and try it.

**rwagner337** · May 16th, 2009, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by jhauer

Has anyone tried the Windows version on the Asus eee PC? I just picked up a model 1000HE. Pretty cool except for XP. Is the Windows version of boxee compatible with XP? If so, I'd love to download and try it.

I am running Boxee on an Acer Aspire One Netbook with great results. Indexing takes a little while to kick in (I left it running all night, then it cascaded in FAST!) - as with the Mac & Linux version, Music management leaves MUCH to be desired, but hey - it's a pre-alpha! But it's still better than Elisa or XBMC Media Center 9.04 "Babylon". Running WinXP SP#, 1gb RAM, 160 GB HDD, 1.86 GHz Atom processor. Movies look great, sort of like a portable DVD player. Hope this helps.

**mightysween** · May 16th, 2009, 10:54 PM

I run Boxee successfully on a similar machine, the Dell Mini 9 (1.6Ghz Atom, 1GB, 16GB SSD, XP).

It works well, but seems to benefit from going into task manager (ctrl+alt+del), right click on the Boxee.exe process and give it a "high" or "above normal" priority. I also do this with any of the sub processes that Boxee spawns when it plays back video.

Other than that, I get good playback, even of 720p HD files over the network.

For the record, none of my video players would play 720p smoothly until I installed the K-Lite Codec pack

**Ginger** · May 20th, 2009, 06:05 AM

I have boxee running on the B206 eee PC and it works a charm. I've just got a bluetooth PS3 remote (unofficial one with keyboard) which I'm going to try and get working.

**jschall** · May 22nd, 2009, 12:41 PM

In answer to the original question - does Boxee work on the ASUS eeePC...

Nope - no sound on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, which uses the ALSA sound driver. The video works fine, but no sound!

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

**agentlame** · May 23rd, 2009, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by jschall

In answer to the original question - does Boxee work on the ASUS eeePC...

Nope - no sound on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, which uses the ALSA sound driver. The video works fine, but no sound!

- Jeff Schallenberg
Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec

this is the windows forum, the question was if boxee worked on xp.

also, boxee works fine on the eee with 8.10 and 9.04; just remove pulseaudio.