Boxee TV?

[servechilled81]

Anybody use Boxee?  It's media center.  It gathers and organizes all your movies, tv shows, music, etc.
Adds descriptions the and covers.
It also pull in all the shows and movies from hulu, abc, cbs etc.
You can link your netflix, twitter, flickr, facebook and lots of other things
You can tweet what your watching, and if someone one your timeline also has Boxee your tweet will show up on their feed on Boxee
It's especially good if you're using your monitor as an hdtv too.
Or just connect laptop to your tv.
I'm using the ipod as a remote (free app for iphone/ipod)

 

[copped]

this looks interesting...

i'm coming close to hitting 2 TB's + worth of blu ray movies/dvd rips, and TV shows...and something like this that would organize them nice would be cool...especially playing it on my TV..


anymore info? i'm installing now.

 

[servechilled81]

There is another program that looks good called XBMC it does the same as boxee, except it doesn't
bring all the shows from the hulu etc.
I might try that one, they have a lot of different menu skins for it http://xbmc.org/


I've messed around with boxee a little, it looks really good on the TV, but I can't get some of my movies to show up
just added my netflix to boxee

iphone/ipod as remote
http://www.youtube.com/v/1OL6ruHE7WA&hl=en_US&fs=1&http://www.youtube.com/v/1OL6ruHE7WA&hl=en_US&fs=1&

 

[copped]

man this program is sooo piff...

thanks for the heads up...


yeah i was trying to figure out why they weren't showing up, and then i finally figured it out...


1) press esc so the mini menu comes up

2) click on settings

3) click on media

4) click on local sources and click add new source

5) there you should see all your hard drives...then you click add source...select media types: music, movies, picture and hit once you hit add...go back and hit 'scan source'

there is some lag...i let boxee run over night (because i got a lot of crap) and now that I got up all my stuff is showing up...all my movies, pictures, music, and tv shows...and when you add the new source and scan it...there is an option there to have it rescan automatically every day...so your stuff will update by itself...


i'll post some screens of my stuff in a sec

 

[copped]

Another cool thing is if you have two of the same thing (i have prestige in blu ray and dvd rip) it will give you option which one you want to play...

A couple of my shows and movies aren't showing up, as you can see in my folders there 355 +116= 471...however on my movie list only 408...I am going to do a rescan...all my shows show up though...

Also I am in canada and i dont have access to all those streaming shows...IS THERE ANY WAY around this? can i like change my proxy or something so it thinks i am in the states? that would be unbelievable if i had access to all those other streaming shows (thousands)..

theres also a porn application...

pornotube or porn hub

anyways nice program...surprised no one else is posting in here

 

[copped]

wow the more I play with this the more i am amazed...


i added the march madness app and now im watching live march madness games....


that iphone remote thing ima try to get that working...

and if your stuff isn't showing up its because of how your files are named...i was looking at the forum:

check this out...

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=5215

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=5214

 

[servechilled81]

cool, i'm gonna edit the file names and just let it scan overnight.

 

[stopit5]

I haven't used boxee much but I've used Windows Media Center, its cool to use it as a DVR but if I were to use a app like this I'd just build a HTPC/seperate mini computer just connected to the tv, would be better than paying a monthly fee for tivo or renting a dvr box. Also if anyone likes the concept of using it as a dvr you can look into cable cards so that you have digital cable to record.

Before cable cards tuners weren't allowed for DIY builders but thats not an issue anymore.