Bugs are annoying and we’re doing our best to hunt them down. In our continued effort to make Boxee more stable we have released another minor update (0.9.14.6992).

You can download the latest version from here (or run the update directly from the Boxee client or from your Apple TV).

below is the list of fixes:

General

• Under some circumstances, digital audio of a video does not work
• Sound distortion for DTS 2.0
• OS X: Digital output (“check your settings” error message)
• Unable to launch Boxee with remote
• Crash when selecting Settings menu
• Black screen instead of video playback
• Dual screen – secondary screen showing white, then crash
• Windows: Win32 window resize when switching between full screen and windowed mode
• User/password of an SMB share was sometimes shown in path (media action and info screens)
• OS X 10.4 (e.g. Apple TV): grainy video problems
• OS X 10.4: crash if setting render method to software
• Support for ATI graphic cards
• Media Library – resolving fails with the error PCRE: Match limit reached
• Updated Spanish translation
• OS X: boxeeservice is now silent and does not print out to terminal on focus change
• Incomplete HTTP transfers causing crashes

Formats and Playback

• Playing certain AVI files crashes
• OS X: crash when skipping forward on an MKV container with embedded subtitles.
• Browsing to a folder with corrupt video file crashes
• Crashes when changing multiple subtitles during video playback
• RAR compressed video files identified as pictures
• Crashed due to corrupt subtitles files
• Issues with audio buffering during video playback

Applications

• Some applications appear twice in the App Box
• Pandora crash after opening lyrics and fast forwarding
• Pandora shutdown after clicking Next a few times
• BBC iPlayer 1.3 label
• Netflix browsing too fast.
• Windows: BoingBoing audio sync issues.
• Windows: We Are Hunted audio tracks playback

Windows Installer

• Flash video playback issues after upgrading from pre-0.9.14
• Update mechanism does not work properly
• Flash player running during installation causing upgrade issue

We are glad to announce that an Howcast App is now available on Boxee. You can browse through top rated, most viewed and most recent how-to videos, or search for a specific video.

Howcast is a great way to learn about stuff. Whether it is How To Live in Your Car or How To Make Ketchup Howcast aims to provide a video answer to any how-to question. The videos are created by Howcast themselves, partners, film students or the community. There are more than 100,000 videos in 25 categories!

It’s quite addictive, going through the most recent or most popular videos, or searching for a how to cook something, or deal with a tech challenge, like How To Connect Your Laptop To Your TV. It is a great service and we’re happy it is now available on Boxee.

Howcast has a very successful iPhone App and I hope the Boxee App will also win many fans.

30 seconds into playing with the HippoRemote iPhone App I knew this is what I as looking for a while now!

I don’t like using my keyboard and mouse in my living room (even the sexy Apple bluetooth mouse & keyboard are not really awkward to use when sitting on a couch). The Apple Remote or the Boxee Remote on the iPhone is what i use on a regular basis, but in some cases you still need to pull out the mouse & keyboard.

HippoRemote to the rescue with an all-in-one remote app! It serves as a replacement for a keyboard and mouse in the living room (a blessing as far as my wife goes) and has fully integrated remotes for several key apps, most importantly Boxee!

The mouse trackpad is VERY nice, intuitive and responds nicely. double-clicking is an ease and HippoRemote did a great job emulating a real mouse.

The Boxee remote is also great. They did a full implementation of navigational keys, esc/home , search + virtual keyboard and even OSD controls (skip, ff etc).

The app is supper quick and I have not found one error or mishap since started playing with it. kudos.

Couple of things that may make it hard for HippoRemote to gain quick market adoption:

• You need to setup sharing on your computer and thus will need a keyboard + mouse for first time setup
• Although 4.99$ is nothing compared to similar devices on the market (for example, ~ 120$ for Logitech diNovo Mini), it’s still a relatively expensive iPhone App

Overall, this is another step in making it easier for people to connect their computers to the TV.

Cheers,
Gidon