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post #2881 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:36am
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Originally Posted by amheck View Post

I agree its a pretty cool way to prevent any leaks. But as far as the beta testers - are they doing this all internally? i.e. none of the beta testers are really using the latest version that Boxee has at any moment in time? That seems a little scary.

That's my assupmtion - probably another way to secure v1 -- but there weren't hardly any issues with the pre tested boxes from the little info I know - the pre tester was told the few issues were fixed in the next version release - but as I said as of 1.5 weeks ago that version wasen't let out of the bag and I 'did not' pressure for any further info since then
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post #2882 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:36am
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Originally Posted by gmd024 View Post

Their not - at least as of about 1-1/2 weeks ago - I believe I remember hearing that the BBox will update when it's initially turned on - so I'm almost sure this will be the v1.0 update/download -- pretty good way to secure v1 from being leaked, imho

as soon as i read this: "Upon 1st power up - an update will most likely take place" my first thought was either the 1.0 download or a quick update to 1.0 for any last minute apps/features that are now finalized or coded.
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post #2883 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:36am
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Originally Posted by gmd024 View Post

Their not - at least as of about 1-1/2 weeks ago - I believe I remember hearing that the BBox will update when it's initially turned on - so I'm almost sure this will be the v1.0 update/download -- pretty good way to secure v1 from being leaked, imho

Its a very good way of keeping things from leaking, but then you have to ask what testing has 1.0 gone through? The Boxee Beta has gone though the rounds with public beta testers and the invite only alpha testers. It would just surprise me that they would release a software release without some beta testing on the Box itself even if it was a small select group of people.
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post #2884 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:39am
maybe Eli hasn't even used v1.0 yet
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post #2885 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by Ph8te View Post

Its a very good way of keeping things from leaking, but then you have to ask what testing has 1.0 gone through? The Boxee Beta has gone though the rounds with public beta testers and the invite only alpha testers. It would just surprise me that they would release a software release without some beta testing on the Box itself even if it was a small select group of people.

I've followed Boxee from the alpha thru the beta and now just a day or two away from the Box/V1.0

So far imho they've pretty much done things the right way in most all respects, including fixing the hiccups along the way, not to mention the "Tons" of content provided - there was a small blurb on the D-Link site a few weeks back that said boxee offered 80k different things to watch/view on Boxee - granted the majority of that content would not of interest most viewers - and that statement has since been taken off the D-Link site

We'll see very soon where v1 is (on the box - or in an initial update) - either way, I feel confident it will be a winner with very few hiccups to be concerned about - if I'm wrong, I'll invite all of you over for a "Crow" dinner
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post #2886 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:53am
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Originally Posted by amheck View Post

maybe Eli hasn't even used v1.0 yet

He is a developer, he is probably on 1.1
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post #2887 of 3635
11/9/10 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by gmd024 View Post

I've followed Boxee from the alpha thru the beta and now just a day or two away from the Box/V1.0

So far imho they've pretty much done things the right way in most all respects, including fixing the hiccups along the way, not to mention the "Tons" of content provided - there was a small blurb on the D-Link site a few weeks back that said boxee offered 80k different things to watch/view on Boxee - granted the majority of that content would not of interest most viewers - and that statement has since been taken off the D-Link site

We'll see very soon where v1 is (on the box - or in an initial update) - either way, I feel confident it will be a winner with very few hiccups to be concerned about - if I'm wrong, I'll invite all of you over for a "Crow" dinner

Indeed I agree, the Beta is pretty stable IMO with only a few hiccups that I ahve expereinced personally. Boxee has done a real good job of trying to please as many people as possible and listening to their community of many voices from many places.
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post #2888 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:03am
I just realized I never looked into this:

The Boxee Box is single band Wireless N, correct? My router has N at 5GHz right now since 2.4GHz is swamped. I could be in trouble. I may have to run a wire I wasn't planning on running.
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post #2889 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:06am
5 star review on Amazon already. I knew this was going to be a great product!
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post #2890 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:12am
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Originally Posted by Gizmotoy View Post

I just realized I never looked into this:

The Boxee Box is single band Wireless N, correct? My router has N at 5GHz right now since 2.4GHz is swamped. I could be in trouble. I may have to run a wire I wasn't planning on running.

I dont think its ever been said if its dual or single band Wireless N....I could be wrong though..
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post #2891 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:15am
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Originally Posted by dyevin View Post

as soon as i read this: "Upon 1st power up - an update will most likely take place" my first thought was either the 1.0 download or a quick update to 1.0 for any last minute apps/features that are now finalized or coded.

Can you hear that giant sucking sound on the internet when we all connect ours?

I hope we can download and manually update..I hate the thought of timeouts that could possibly brick it!
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post #2892 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:17am
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Originally Posted by Ph8te View Post

I dont think its ever been said if its dual or single band Wireless N....I could be wrong though..

I searched the thread and didn't see anything. The fact that it hasn't been mentioned probably implies it's single band.

Eli's been quiet for the past day or so, so we probably won't find out for sure until it starts showing up at people's doors.
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post #2893 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by amheck View Post

5 star review on Amazon already. I knew this was going to be a great product!

That too just for the shape, without having purchased the Box
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post #2894 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by Ph8te View Post

1) It was mentioned in this thread I believe, but I dont remember the actual answer.
2) I currently have a few movies in folders, Boxee grabs the information just fine. I believe it takes the Folder name to try to scrape.
3) There are settings in the Beta which you let you set the intervals (you can do "live" scrapping. You can turn this feature off.
4) I do not belive Boxee as of yet does "local" scrapping, the developers are aware this is a wanted feature and may add it in the future.
5)You can manually search for any title that Boxee doesnt find.

Thanks!
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post #2895 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by Ph8te View Post

2) I currently have a few movies in folders, Boxee grabs the information just fine. I believe it takes the Folder name to try to scrape.
3) There are settings in the Beta which you let you set the intervals (you can do "live" scrapping. You can turn this feature off.
4) I do not belive Boxee as of yet does "local" scrapping, the developers are aware this is a wanted feature and may add it in the future.
5)You can manually search for any title that Boxee doesnt find.

For clarity...
2) Boxee beta doesn't care about folders - it only reads the file name. (I presume that will be the case for foreseeable future)
4) There is certainly no use of local file descriptions for video (ID3 tags for music) - internet scraping only at this time - Eli reports they are strongly considering using local .nfo files or similar - IMO it will be a few months before that is a reasonable possibility.
5) you can manually search, but there are still some titles that won't be found. (some international titles, exercise videos, video bonus features, etc) :/
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post #2896 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by wagabond View Post

That too just for the shape, without having purchased the Box

Yah - the 32 commenters got a real hoot out of the "Review-??"
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post #2897 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:44am
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Originally Posted by HopefulFred View Post

4) There is certainly no use of local file descriptions for video (ID3 tags for music) - internet scraping only at this time

I believe that ID3 tags for music works; what doesn't work is embedded album art and/or the folder.jpg scenario. IIRC the scraping related to mp3 files is for artist and album images.
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post #2898 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by HopefulFred View Post

For clarity...
2) Boxee beta doesn't care about folders - it only reads the file name. (I presume that will be the case for foreseeable future)
:/

I'm not sure about that. All of my 1000's of .vob files are named VTS_xx_xx and my folder names are what contain the movie. The beta software can find all of the movies that are on imdb.
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post #2899 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:56am
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Originally Posted by amheck View Post

I'm not sure about that. All of my 1000's of .vob files are named VTS_xx_xx and my folder names are what contain the movie. The beta software can find all of the movies that are on imdb.

Yes, folder names are used.

Boxee will find movies and tv shows titles are in the IMDB database (for the most part) except for "straight to video" (V) items.
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post #2900 of 3635
11/9/10 at 11:56am
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Originally Posted by HopefulFred View Post

For clarity...
2) Boxee beta doesn't care about folders - it only reads the file name. (I presume that will be the case for foreseeable future)
4) There is certainly no use of local file descriptions for video (ID3 tags for music) - internet scraping only at this time - Eli reports they are strongly considering using local .nfo files or similar - IMO it will be a few months before that is a reasonable possibility.
5) you can manually search, but there are still some titles that won't be found. (some international titles, exercise videos, video bonus features, etc) :/

boxee not reading the folder name will be an issue probably for anyone planning on using ts or bdmv folders.
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post #2901 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:01pm
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Originally Posted by amheck View Post

I'm not sure about that. All of my 1000's of .vob files are named VTS_xx_xx and my folder names are what contain the movie. The beta software can find all of the movies that are on imdb.

I have boocoo BD and DVD rips that are stored in two master folders (and in different locations/HDDs on the network) - one titled ISOs and the other 'MKVs' - inside each master folder each rip is stored in subfolders titled 'the name of the movie' leaving out the the words 'The', 'A' etc... for better alphabetical indexing - inside eack subfolder it the actual rip titled the default name given by the ripping software when ripped (I have a 'lot' of rips named "title00.mkv"

Boxee has found/indexed the many Tbs of content/folders on multiple 2Tb USB HDDs and an HP WHS - never missed a one
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post #2902 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:05pm
Will get it tomorrow
Thanks to Amazon Prime!

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post #2903 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:07pm
Sweet. Waiting on my status to go to shipped. Should be any time now. Thanks goodness for Amazon Prime and one day shipping.
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post #2904 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:10pm
Now on to endless mine shipped posts

still waiting to post mine
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post #2905 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:12pm
boxee scraper made a huge mess of my .ts files (hundreds unrecognized, behind the sceens/trailers/menus/etc. used instead of main movie) but eli assured us that this is fixed in ver. 1.0 i.e. boxee now understands the top level folder of a dvd folder structure as a single movie
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post #2906 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:13pm
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Originally Posted by jmpage2 View Post

This is great, will add to 1st or 2nd post on the 1st page of the thread, thanks.

You want to open a new thread BB owners thread?? or too early??
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post #2907 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by csrini1 View Post

You want to open a new thread BB owners thread?? or too early??

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...ighlight=boxee
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post #2908 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:15pm
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Originally Posted by csrini1 View Post

You want to open a new thread BB owners thread?? or too early??

already done - just waiting for actual owners!
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post #2909 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by 720p View Post

boxee scraper made a huge mess of my .ts files (hundreds unrecognized, behind the sceens/trailers/menus/etc. used instead of main movie) but eli assured us that this is fixed in ver. 1.0 i.e. boxee now understands the top level folder of a dvd folder structure as a single movie

How does XBMC handle it ?
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post #2910 of 3635
11/9/10 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by poppap View Post

Will get it tomorrow
Thanks to Amazon Prime!

That's crazy. I ordered a month before you, one day ship, and it says it wont arrive until November 12th! I hope they adjust, else I will be getting my shipping cost back.
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