Boxee on Windows Rocks!
Now that Boxee has released an alpha version for Windows, I can finally run it. I put in on my HTPC running Windows 7 build 7100, and I’m loving it so far.
When I first ran it the display was completely fubar, and was zoomed in so most of the UI was off the screen. I headed straight to the forums and got the answer. All I had to do was check the ‘Disable display scaling on high DPI settings’ checkbox in the Compatibility tab for the Boxee shortcut, and it worked fine.
So far I’ve pointed it to my NAS box containing all of my movies and TV shows, and have been bouncing around playing random stuff. For the most part it does a good job of playing my content, including some 720p MKVs. It did choke on my Babylon 5 rips, which are an odd combination of MKV container, MPEG-4 video, and Ogg Vorbis audio. Otherwise it’s played everything I’ve tried so far.
The GUI is much cleaner than WMC, and has a much more robust application ecosystem. If it wasn’t for those assholes at hulu constantly breaking Boxee’s hulo support, Boxee would be perfect.
The social media element also has potential. I can see how cool it would be if everything in my family used it to watch their media content, though for now I’m the only one.
June 30th, 2009 - 06:06
I was thinking of building some kind of cheep mediacenter based off boxee. But I can’t seem to find the right hardware around here.
What is your NAS box exactly?