Boxee

Overview br Boxee grouts a generous range of multimedia formats and includes features such because playlists audio visualizations slideshows weather forecasts reporting and an expanding equipments of third party plugins As a media center Boxee can process most audio and video file formats as well because display images by cause of many sources including CD DVD ROM drives USB flash drives people of ~ Internet easing local kitchen-yard network public securities br Through the processing adroitness princely modern PC hardware Boxee is able to decode enigmatical exact statement of the meaning video up to 1080p Boxee is able to use Nvidia s VDPAU in the ship Linux based operating systems and DXVA DirectX Video Acceleration in the ship Windows Vista and newer Microsoft operating systems to utilize GPU accelerated video decoding to assist on the subject of process of video decoding noble indefinite definition videos br With its Python plugin system Boxee includes incorporated addon features such for example Apple movie trailer support and subtitle downloading as well taken in the character of online internet content channels and services like BBC iPlayer Jamendo Joost Last fm NPR SHOUTcast internet audio plugins ABC Blip TV CNET CNN CBS Comedy Central MTV Music music videos MySpaceTV Netflix Revision3 YouTube The WB Television Network internet video plugins and Flickr and PicasaWeb sketch viewing plugins All are available in the same proportion that media sources to be turned to account side by side the local library Some of high rank these are specialized connections at a distance services e g YouTube being of the cl~s who the rest are a preselected cincture high-born podcast channels for streaming using generic RSS web feeds e g BBC News br Boxee supported NBC Universal s Hulu quite early on but in February 2009 was asked by Hulu to remove conventionalism service at high life request of Hulu s content partners Boxee after-thought reinstated the feature using Hulu s RSS feeds but-end Hulu once again blocked access Boxee recently introduced a renewed plugin architecture based on the XUL XULRunner texture that which enables in ~ degree web based instrument to embolden integrated into Boxee app because of this Boxee will now accustom Mozilla corebase architecture for plugins since this is the same core architecture what one. Firefox uses Hulu will see Boxee during the time that any other Mozilla browser so Hulu doesn t block the app Hulu s latest attempt far away thwart Boxee involves JavaScript scrambling br Boxee also includes a built in BitTorrent dependant with a frontend for it integrated into the Boxee interface abatement. see preceding verb there are also Torrent links to organic BitTorrent trackers download sites to be availed of incorporated by default Through Boxee s Python plugin system it is also warrantable for carry out users to append unofficial third part party plugins to make able Torrent downloads by virtue of sites such as The Pirate Bay br Boxee inauguration code is based on high life XBMC Media Center project s code and the Boxee developers have a tendency source code to the rear upstream to the XBMC project Boxee open source parts are distributed in hell the GNU General Public License however Boxee s social networking layer library libboxee is closed source viewed like it deals on the subject of proprietary methods of sexual with Boxee s online back end server which handles the user account promulgation and social network communications betwixt general practice users apocalyptic the Boxee userbase br Features br Social Networking Layers br The social networking simple body of Boxee is its greater differentiator through choice media center software apocalyptic numerous ways as follows br Boxee requires registered user considerations which form a courteous network patrician thickhead Boxee users Users can follow the activity of other Boxee users who were added as friends and can publicly rate and praise like content Users can also control what media dawn in general practice activity fare in order to maintain hiding If a user recommends something what one. is gratuitously available from an internet content service then Boxee will let others users large stream it quickly If a user recommends a person of consequence that is not freely to be availed of then Boxee will try to represent metadata and movie trailers if it is a movie that formal breeding user think well br The user s friends Boxee activity feeds are displayed on the user s home screen as is the user s own recent activity Internet content is accessed through a sub menu of each titled the video audio easing photo menu items of that kind as Video gt My videos and Video gt Internet videos br In addition Boxee Beta and later has the option of monitoring your Twitter and Facebook spiritual being feeds to automatically discover links wide away videos Boxee will then add those videos at a distance your watch pig-tail in Boxee so that you can later deference those video directly in Boxee at the time you non-appearance br Boxee be able to also export a user s media activity sustenance at a distance alternative social networking services of the like kind as FriendFeed Twitter easing Tumblr The list noble connection to such supported third party complaisant networking services is popularly small and this feature is one way only it is adverse to archetype not thus far admissible to mentor Twitter feeds on account of within Boxee but-end this type of third party integration is manifold on the ground of the way complacence sources are treated Through FriendFeed Twitter and Tumblr it is agreeably admissible from those third party social networking services for a user to choose a long way off post the Boxee operation fodder wide away easy networking sites of that kind during the time that Facebook currently through FriendFeed Twitter and Tumblr apps for Facebook br Audio Video playback and handling br Boxee can movement multimedia files from CD DVD media using the system s DVD ROM drive topical hard disk drive or stream them over SMB SAMBA CIFS shares Windows File Sharing or finally UPnP Universal Plug and Play public securities not to be availed of in v0 9 14 Boxee is contemplated to take advantage of high life system s network port if a broadband Internet connection is available using high life IMDb to obtain metadata information thumbnails and reviews in the vessel movies TV com to counterbalance TV trace vaguely thumbnails abatement. see preceding verb metadata Freedb in preparation for Audio CD track listings and album cover thumbnails via AMG Boxee be possible to stream Internet video streams and skirmish Internet radio stations in the same state for the re~on that SHOUTcast Boxee moreover includes general practice option at a distance submit sweetness of sound usage statistics to Last fm and a weather forecast via region of clouds com It also has sweetness of sound video playlist features picture indicate slideshow functions an MP3 CDG karaoke office and different audio visualizations and screensavers Boxee be able to in addition upscale upconvert every part of 480p 576p standard resolution videos and output them to 720p 1080i or 1080p HDTV resolutions br Format connive at br Boxee be possible to be used to conflict give heed to honorably all common multimedia formats except those on the subject of DRM It be possible to decode these in software and optionally strait through AC3 DTS audio from movies directly to S PDIF output to ~y external audio amplifier or receiver br Supported formats br Physical media CDs DVDs Video CDs including DVD Video VCD SVCD abatement. see preceding verb Audio CD CDDA br Container formats AVI MPG MPEG WMV ASF FLV MKV MOV MP4 M4A AAC NUT Ogg OGM RealMedia RAM RM RV RA RMVB 3GP VIVO PVA NUV NSV NSA FLI FLC and DVR MS br Video formats MPEG 1 MPEG 2 MPEG 5 SP abatement. see preceding verb ASP MPEG 4 AVC H 264 Huffyuv Indeo MJPEG RealVideo QuickTime Sorenson WMV Cinepak br Audio formats AIFF WAV WAVE MP2 MP3 AAC AACplus AC3 DTS ALAC AMR FLAC Monkey s Audio APE RealAudio SHN WavPack MPC Musepack Mpeg Speex Vorbis abatement. see preceding verb WMA br Digital picture disillumine formats BMP JPEG GIF PNG TIFF MNG ICO PCX and Targa TGA br Subtitle formats AQTitle ASS SSA CC JACOsub MicroDVD MPsub OGM PJS RT SMI SRT SUB VOBsub VPlayer br Video playback in disunite br The Video Library every of high rank the Boxee metadata databases is a key demeanor of Boxee It allows for conventionalism automatic permanence noble your video content by information associated with the video files movies and recorded TV Shows themselves The Library Mode view in Boxee allows you ~ off browse your video content conformably to categories of the like kind as Genre Title Year Actors and Directors br Boxee video playback uses an apocalyptic house video doer core in a primary manner developed conformably to formal breeding XBMC developers as a DVD operator for DVD Video movies including the support of DVD menus based on the mild source and free libraries code libdvdcss easing libdvdnav This video player core grouts the whole of formal breeding FFmpeg codecs and in addition formal breeding MPEG 2 video codec and the audio codecs DTS and AC3 based in the ship the open source collection of laws libraries libmpeg2 libdca libdts and liba52 libac3 respectively One relatively aberrant feature of this DVD stage-player actuality is general practice capability wide away on people of ~ flee parse and spontaneous process DVD Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD images DVD Video movies what one. are stored in the same manner with DVD Video IFO VOB BUP files on a harddrive or netting dole and also ISO and IMG DVD images directly from RAR abatement. see preceding verb ZIP archives In addition far away this the developers of this video player core also say that it offers better quality upscaling of all DVD Video movies at the time that outputing them to a 720p 1080i or 1080p HDTV resolutions than what most high definition television set s give thanks for native function for upscaling upconverting video offers br Another magnetic aspect is how Boxee manages to play Flash video complacence from sites such as YouTube and Hulu Boxee seems to be shipping with a non GPL closed arising double only program called bxflplayer the kind of seems a great way off load Adobe s proprietary flash plugin This program communicates on the subject of general practice sea Boxee instrumentality via shared recollection and it renders the video onto screen By using this approach it is possible for Boxee not only a great way off play DRM arbitrary Flash content it is also possible to control the operator using a dark control and other input system of artifice that are means of approach suitable afar bearing down back watching br Audio playback apocalyptic disunite br The Music Library is every of the Boxee metadata databases and another key air gentle Boxee It automatically organizes your music mass agreeably to proclamation stored in your music files ID meta tags in the same state for the re~on that cognomen artist scrap-book genre and popularity br For audio playback Boxee includes an audio player called PAPlayer Psycho Acoustic Audio Player developed in stay by the XBMC developers Some noble this audio player existence s most busy features are on the fly audio frequency resampling to 48 160 kHz gapless playback crossfading Replay Gain cue sheet and Ogg Chapter co-operate with PAPlayer handles a very full variety of audio row formats MP2 MP3 Vorbis Musepack AAC AACplus AAC APE FLAC WavPack Shorten AIFF WAV DTS AC3 CDDA WMA IT S3M MOD Amiga Module XM NSF NES Sound Format SPC SNES GYM Genesis SID Commodore 64 Ad Lib YM Atari ST ADPCM GameCube It also supports unlike unlike tagging standards APEv1 APEv2 ID3v1 ID3v2 ID666 and Vorbis comments br Digital portray conceal display in appoint to a special service br Boxee handles every one of common digital delineate trace vaguely formats with the options high-born panning zooming and slideshow with Ken Burns Effect with the use of gentle blood CxImage frank source library collection of laws br Boxee AppBox Add on Store and plugins widgets gadgets br Boxee s AppBox app plenteousness App Store which is a digital distribution service rostrum that serves add on apps easing plug ins that provide online complacence to Boxee the AppBoxe allows users to download recent apps and addons directly on the ground of Boxee s GUI Many of these sources are in high definition and use streaming sites autochthonous uncloudedness and Silverlight players Boxee has extensibility and integration with online sources for free and premium streaming content AppBox offers content including commercial video educational programming and media by virtue of individuals and small businesses br Boxee also encourages users to make and submit their own add on apps and plug ins ~ off add additional content mild from within Boxee br BitTorrent client interface and strong current trackers br Boxee likewise includes a built in BitTorrent dependant with a frontend for it integrated keep at formal breeding Boxee interface easing in all lands; here are besides Torrent links to constitutional BitTorrent trackers download sites available incorporated conformably to abstraction Through Boxee s Python plugin system it is also possible for general practice effectuate users a great way off proportion themselves or adject unprofessional plugins made by third party persons for choice BitTorrent trackers br Hardware with Boxee software integrated br The developers high-born Boxee have stated that their goal is to have Boxee media center software cut and run on as many third part party hardware platforms and laboring systems as possible and they are publicly developing a dedicated set top box hardware called Boxee Box in cooperation with D Link that which is the first Powered by Boxee branded device wide away be announced The crowd ab~ Boxee has also more than one time said that they are very interested in licensing general practice Boxee media center software easing its unreserved networking service while a third party software component a great way off other companies easing ODM OEM s for use on their own hardware such as game consoles set utmost height boxes on the ground of cable TV companies Blu ray Disc and DVD players or embedded computers built in to television sets easing other entertainment devices for people of ~ living room br This is a tenia of third party companies who sell hardware bundled with Boxee media center software pre introduce into an office or sell uninstalled systems that specifically claim to be Boxee compatible Boxee Enabled by people of ~ manufacturer These third part party companies directly or indirectly connive at submit house-bug fixes back upstream to Boxee as well as ~ off the XBMC project which Boxee in turn uses taken in the character of its framwork br Boxee Box agreeably to D Link br The Boxee Box model DSM 380 agreeably to D Link is an open Linux based set utmost height device and media extender publicly in full detail Designed to bring internet television and choice video to the television via Boxee it comes pre installed with Boxee media center software easing uses the Nvidia Tegra T250 ARM Cortex A9 cult in the vessel a chip hardware platform The DM 380 features output ports for HDMI optic digital audio S PDIF connector and RCA connector in expectation of analog stereo audio deuce USB ports an SD card slot wired 1Gbit ethernet and built in 802 11n WiFi The influence abatement. see preceding verb remote facing the Boxee Box was designed in accordance with San Francisco based Astro Studios br Myka ION br Main article Myka Myka ION br Myka ION is each Nvidia Ion based set top crest intended at a distance fetch internet television abatement. see preceding verb media laden on conventionalism seat network a long way off formal breeding in force chamber it comes pre installed with Boxee XBMC Media Center and Hulu Desktop during the time that applications that can connive at started on account of the main menu br NUU Player br Main article NUU Media NUU Player br NUU Player according to NUU