Comments on: Boxee Beta Now Works on Apple TV

By: CYE

CYE — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:53:55 +0000

Oh & Boxee Rocks! Thanks Boxee for being such great people to give us such a great program to use how we see fit. Boxee I for one appreciate your work & I appreciate that you shared it & did not sale it to us, so you got my respect & you were good enough to even make it be able to be installed on Macs, Linux & Windows & by way of wonderful hacks other devices are able to use boxee & I want to say Thank You & I am going to purchase your set-top box (Boxee Box) just because you have been so great to us geeks when other companies won't give us a free update. Again Thanks if you ever read this post!

By: CYE

CYE — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:42:36 +0000

Mine Works! & as far as flash, it even has a flash install & Firefox install so you can see anything using it. But if you got slow broadband connections, then you may have trouble. As far as the crashing thing, I have not crashed yet & hope I do not, but you know how tech is, one day it works the next trouble, but for now I am having fun with it especially not having to turn on one of my macs,Windows or Linux Boxes to suck more electricity right out of my wallet. I love this hack & my wallet loves it even more.

By: MoTo

MoTo — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:30:28 +0000

Are you kidding me? After several years of nothing, lets stop admiring the Emperor's clothes. It's time someone says this so that someone doesn't actually BUY a device for Boxee:

BOXEE SUCKS.

I have yet to get this--sorry-trashware to run ANYTHING on an AppleTV. You can look through a lot of things online. But select something and press play and more often that not you will find that the AppleTV just crashes. Boxee is crap. Don't waste your time.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:38:38 +0000

In reply to Hog_Wild. I've had that problem when trying ssh between several different apple devices through the terminal. I found this on a forum and it works to wipe out that issue. Run this terminal command and try it again

"At any rate, you can just clean out the known_hosts file and the warning will go away and allow you to connect.

Open up Terminal and do:
echo "" > .ssh/known_hosts

(note that the above is two sets of quotes) "

By: kaarup

kaarup — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:42:36 +0000

how does the ATV handle 1080p MKV with Boxee?

By: adam

adam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:07:23 +0000

I agree - You can find Hulu content under TV Shows. It was a little surprising as I was not sure what that section was for. Unfortunately, the Hulu content did not work for me. I got a message saying that I need a flash player. It looks like this is just emulating a browser, which is fine. But how do I these plug-ins.

Other than that, the beta runs great on my ATV 3.2. It is much better than the Alpha in that it crashes less (not never, but less). It also seems that the beta understands my VOB formated DVDs (the old one you had to guess which file to run) and plays VOB dvd menus great.

Good improvement all-in-all.

P.S. Pandora works GREAT!

By: MHBA11

MHBA11 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000

In reply to WhereIsHulu. go to shows - it's all in there and you just click hulu feed

By: WhereIsHulu

WhereIsHulu — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:03:44 +0000

I do not see Hulu in the Boxee Beta for AppleTV anywhere in the Apps. The last Alpha I had installed had it and it worked just fine (other than HD content, which has always been choppy and probably always will be with the limited ATV hardware). So by “upgrading” to the Beta, I actually got downgraded to no Hulu. There is no option on Launcher to put back the older Alpha either. It also lost all my password and network settings, which never happened on any prior Boxee updates through Launcher.

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:35:13 +0000

Got it running on 3.0.2 last night

By: Rob S.

Rob S. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:29:42 +0000

Any word if this works with ATV 3.0.2 that was just released? Anything that you have to do differently?