Boxee Beta released to public!

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Windows/Mac/Linux/Apple TV: Boxee—the XBMC media center spin-off that took web video by storm—has just released its first public beta into the wild. The new release comes with a new look, improved features, and a few new tricks up its sleeve.

The new UI is slicker than snot. I'm officially dropping Plex now.

http://lifehacker.com/5442915/boxee-beta-officially-available-for-all-platforms

http://boxee.tv/

So does anyone here use Boxee? If so, add me as a friend dammit.

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Using XBMC here on Ubuntu. I think we will be upgrading but I don't know. The new XBMC is pretty fly and has GPU HD content decoding built in. We are also getting and Apple TV, putting in one of these cards, http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012 and this will be hardware accelerating (through Boxee of course) the interface/playback for true 1080p through an ATV.
 
I fucking love xbmc

also, currently we have an htpc hooked up for streaming video but I really miss using the xbox controller for it
 
Using XBMC here on Ubuntu. I think we will be upgrading but I don't know. The new XBMC is pretty fly and has GPU HD content decoding built in. We are also getting and Apple TV, putting in one of these cards, http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012 and this will be hardware accelerating (through Boxee of course) the interface/playback for true 1080p through an ATV.

Boxee also has hardware acceleration. Its everything that XBMC is and more, imho.

edit: And I never cracked open my ATV, but there is a PCI-E slot in there?
 
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Boxee also has hardware acceleration. Its everything that XBMC is and more, imho.

edit: And I never cracked open my ATV, but there is a PCI-E slot in there?

I knew Boxee was built on XBMC platform, but I didn't know the newest XBMC code that Broadcom worked with them on for the GPGPU hardware acceleration was "ported" to the Boxee code yet. That XBMC code was only released in December.

The ATV has a mini-PCIe slot for the wifi card. Swap that out with that Broadcom card and you are good to go. There are Mac and linux drivers for the card so it should work. Well people are reporting it is working anyway. To do streaming you can still just plug into a wired network (still has ethernet). That is what I am planning on doing when I pick up my new ATV for $60 next week.
 
I do agree, though, I would go for Boxee over XBMC especially if the underpinnings of XBMC are updated timely into the Boxee fork.
 
I've looked at this, but for now I just use my PS3, I either put them on a Memory stick or I stream it over my network. I need to hook cat 5 to my PS3, so it will work a tad better.
Right now I have the the Apple N router and my MBP is N. Should not have any prob w/ bandwidth.
 
I do agree, though, I would go for Boxee over XBMC especially if the underpinnings of XBMC are updated timely into the Boxee fork.

Yes, xbmc changes are ported pretty quickly into Boxee. I'm assuming that's how they already have hardware acceleration.
 
I've looked at this, but for now I just use my PS3, I either put them on a Memory stick or I stream it over my network. I need to hook cat 5 to my PS3, so it will work a tad better.
Right now I have the the Apple N router and my MBP is N. Should not have any prob w/ bandwidth.

I have a buddy who has a PS3 and bought an AppleTV. According to him, the UI for Boxee is much better than the PS3 (and that was the alpha UI, not the newest beta UI). If you actually keep all your movies and TV shows, Boxee's metadata scraping is shithot. As is its Pandora app. And its Netflix app. And a bunch of other cool apps, like Justin.tv.
 
Is there a Boxee "app store"? (god I hate that term now) Where would you get these plugins?