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week of Dec 15th – bug fixing version

we’re going to spend this coming week fixing bugs being reported on the latest version.

we are going to try and fix the following issues:

  • Netflix performance – some users are complaining of stuttering of certain Netflix movies. we’re going to try and improve the performance of the player
  • Netflix missing pause, ffwd, rewind – basic stuff. we know. fixing.
  • Hulu not playing R-rated content – lots of good content is R-rated.. and we have a bug that even though you login to Hulu you can’t view these videos
  • TV Shows disappearing – for some users the TV Show library has been erased, and never comes back.. which could be very frustrating. we’re on it.
  • missing Trailers – you should be able to watch trailers for many of the movies you come across, but for some reason they are not showing up
  • missing thumbnails in homescreen – some items in the homescreen are missing their thumbnails (events from Hulu, Netflix)
  • spinning circle of death – in some cases when boxee tries to stream a video and fails there is no timeout, which unless you are using a keyboard and can click ‘x’, you’re stuck
  • screen calibration – you matched boxee to fit perfectly to the last pixel on your HD TV, only to find your calibration is not saved in next session. not cool.
  • secondary screen – when connecting to a secondary screen and going fullscreen, the window comes back to the primary display.
  • crashes – depending how many of them we can consistently reproduce (if you have a consistent, reproducible crash please send us the details to support@boxee.tv)

there are other smaller bugs that we’re going to take care of. and release the Ubuntu version, as well as an updated Windows pre-alpha version (you can request to join the limited release for Windows here). busy week.

please let us know if you think we’re missing a biggie (i.e. something that is not working properly that really hurts the user experience)

December 7, 2008 at 5:38 pm

67 Responses to “week of Dec 15th – bug fixing version”

  1. Tamir says:

    1. when i use hulu it wont let me stream in HD (in windows version)so the resolution is very bad when i use boxee
    2. in hulu when you use their site you have an option under TV-> Browse, to do it by network, this is a lot easier to work with because they have so many shows.
    2. pause button doesnt always work

  2. BigEarn says:

    Hulu will not let me watch a rated r movie like “GO”. I cannot figure out how to change my age on the profile so that it lets me watch rated r content. Anyone???