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 HippoRemoteiPhone 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.
We spent the last few weeks fixing bugs on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu and Apple TV. We had some stability issues related to the Boxee Browser and audio-playback, which caused quite a few crashes. We also put some more work into our website, so if you login you’ll see a whole new dashboard (make sure to try out the find friends feature to see who of your contacts is already using Boxee).
You can download the latest version for all platforms here (if you’re on apple TV, then go to the menu and download the latest version).
The latest version includes the following new features:
Geo-based filtering of Apps – enables app developers to indicate in which countries the app works, so people who can’t access the content will not see it in the app box (the user can disable the filtering by going to Settings > Appearance > View options)
Adult content filter for Apps and RSS feeds – applications, RSS feeds and specific items can be marked as adult by the app developer. The user can control whether he’d like to see adult apps or not (default is hide adult content) by going to Settings > Appearance > View options.
List of unresolved videos – under browse there is now an option to view unresolved videos, there you will be able to view the latest video files boxee found on your home networks, but could not determine whether they are specific TV Shows or movies. You can use the “recognize†feature to try and manually tell boxee what this video is.
Squashed bugs:
Windows: crashes on ProjectM (still known issue with shutdown while playing music)
Windows: fullscreen toggle (still when going to windowed mode – the ratio is wrong and a user has toâ€drag†the window to fix it)
Windows: installer now removes obsolete dll-s in the flashplayer folder (those were crashing Flash playback when a user updated a previous install)
OS X: system’s screen saver was taking over with no way to remove it using the remote
Occasional deadlock when playing video and toggling between “now playing†screen and other screens
Occasional deadlock when starting to play something while something else is playing
When adding a feed default to “rss://†if nothing was specified
Python apps and scripts could corrupt one another while running in parallel (example: lyrics when playing from pandora)
Crashes, hangs and mem-leaks on image loading
Last, but not least there is a new support section on the boxee website, with FAQ, how-to and a growing knowledge base.
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