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[stu90]

Boxee is a Media Center and extender (that can be hooked up to your TV) which allows you to organize and watch local, networked and streaming media.

Step 1.
Head over to Portable Linux Apps and download Boxee
http://portablelinuxapps.org/

Step 2.
Right click on the downloaded Boxee file go to File>Properties and tick the 3 boxes under Exce.

Step 3. Register an account on Boxee
http://www.boxee.tv/

Step 4. Thats it click on the Boxee file and enjoy your media.

A picture paints a thousand words so here is a video of Boxee running on my Lucid 5.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqDgnxuNmQs


Running Lucid 5.1 with Xorg-High driver.

[edoc]

I don't have a lot of time for, or interest in, most commonly-popular media so I may be missing some of the value-added of Boxee vs some alternative interfaces.

Can you describe what Boxee does that http://yippy.com or http://hulu.com or http://crackle.com do not, please?

I am guessing, other than running the app on the local PC, rather than a crackle/hulu/yippy "cloud" of sorts Boxee may have more options than the others?

[stu90]

I have not used those other sites - Boxee is a media center you run on your computer not a website.
It allows you to organize and play media that you have on your computer as well as media on the Internet in one environment.

For instance on the video i posted - in the Movie and TV sections those files are on my hard drive, Boxee connected to the net and downloaded all the film and TV shows information, show descriptions and covers.

Boxee's interface is all so set up for easy navigation when connected to a TV , so instead of seeing a PC interface or website you see a nice media center with all the relevant information about your media in a nice clean layout plus the option to watch online media as well.

[edoc]

Ah, OK, then it is more robust!

It looked real good on your Youtube demo.

BTW: What did you use to create that?

[stu90]

For the screen recording i used Xvidcap-1.1.7 .pet

The scrolling text at the start is with ROXTerm terminal and Lobsters Autocue script.

For editing the video and music i used the portable versions of Avidemux and Audacity from portable linux apps - i have openshot video editor installed but as my laptop is not the best spec it takes an age to transcode a HD file - Avidemux allows you to edit / cut /join and add music etc with out transcoding.

[Jasper]

Hi,

stu90, thanks to your most helpful instructions I was able to register and try boxee, but I shall be pleased if you, or someone, could help me with two queries:

Everything was really slow, cursor movements and typing my chosen name and password, however my question is - how does one get to log out?

and

I had to install Xorg High before clicking on the icon worked, but my question is Quickpet says Xorg High is 14 MB though my save space reduced by 46 MB - was that expected?

My regards

Added:
I should have explained that boxee itself was not in my save space.

[Sylvander]

I have:
1. [Within Lupu-510 loaded from "live" CD-RW, with 1GB pupsave on its own 1.3GB partition on a Flash Drive]...
Downloaded the Boxee executable file [to /00].

2. [In Xfe] Right-clicked on it and chose "Properties", clicked the "Permissions" tab, and ticked the "Execute" boxes for "User", "Group", and "Others".

3. Registered at the Boxee website.
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PROBLEM
1. Unable to run the Boxee executable file.
How would I do that? In Xfe?
I can open a terminal in the folder, but it doesn't see the file [command not found].

2. My TV is a new Sony...
Includes a USB wireless dongle [Network Interface] already set up to [successfully] connect to the web direct [not yet networked to the PC] via a D-Link wireless router connected to a Webstar cable modem, and via the co-axial cable to the ISP and the web.
The PC is successfully connected to the router by wire.
Here's the history:
LCD TV Sony Bravia KDL-32EX503: wireless connection.

[stu90]

[Jasper]

Hi stu90,

Thank you for your comprehensive responses to my questions and comments.

Cheers

Added:
Subsequently, it worked quite well using the arrow keys (rather than the mouse). Thanks again - there is almost no chance I would have tried it except for this thread (and even less chance I would have had it working).

[stu90]

[pistoi0]

I am getting an error message to the effect that Boxee is missing libmms.so.0, and thus cannot open shared library files: No such file or directory.

Where to get this lib and where to install it ?

Thanks.[/code]

[Sylvander]

1. My video card:
nVidia NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 model 64/model 64 pro] (rev 15)

2. Tried "Quickpet->Drivers->Click here to test...", and all 3 nVidia drivers one after the other.
They resulted in all [icons, menus, windows] but the screen wallpaper becoming very tiny.
Boxee file wouldn't run whilst any of these drivers were installed.
Rebooted, and chose to "not save the session", and each was gone in turn.
Now back as things began.

3.
(a) Tried using Rox-filer to run the file, but that failed [nothing happens][just like with Xfe].

(b) Then used Rox-filer to display "Properties" for the file.
It shows:
Contents indicate...
ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
UDF filesystem data
(unknown version, id "NSRO....

[stu90]

[stu90]

[pistoi0]

Thank you, Stu. Now all is well. I had mistakenly download the Debian version and unpacked that. I have since gone back and followed instructions more closely ('')