Boxee later reinstated the feature using Hulu's RSS feeds, but Hulu once again blocked access. īoxee supported NBC Universal's Hulu quite early on, but in February 2009, was asked by Hulu to remove the service at the request of Hulu's content partners. Some of these are specialized connections to services (e.g., YouTube), while the rest are a preselected list of podcast channels for streaming using generic RSS web feeds (e.g., BBC News). All are available as media sources available alongside the local library. With its Python plugin system, Boxee includes incorporated addon features such as Apple movie trailer support and subtitle downloading, as well as 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 picture viewing plugins. Boxee is able to use Nvidia's VDPAU on Linux-based operating-systems, and DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) on Windows Vista and newer Microsoft operating-systems to utilize GPU accelerated video decoding to assist with process of video decoding of high-definition videos. Through the processing power of modern PC hardware, Boxee is able to decode high-definition video up to 1080p. As a media center, Boxee can play most audio and video file formats, as well as display images from many sources, including CD/DVD-ROM drives, USB flash drives, the Internet, and local area network shares. 5.2 Skins, skinning, and the skinning-engineīoxee supports a wide range of multimedia formats and includes features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and an expanding array of third-party plugins.5.1 Add-on apps (widgets/gadgets) and python scripts as plugins. 4 Hardware with Boxee software integrated.3 Mobile software associated with Boxee.2.8 BitTorrent client, interface, and torrent trackers.2.7 Digital picture/image display in detail.2.2 Boxee AppBox Add-on Store and plugins (widgets/gadgets).The company is today publicly known to be financially backed by venture capital firms such as General Catalyst Partners, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Globis Capital Partners. īoxee is owned and developed by a single for-profit startup company, (Boxee, Inc.), which began as a high tech stealth startup based in Israel and the United States with seed money from several angel investors. The company behind Boxee has also more than once said that they are very interested in licensing the Boxee media center software and its social networking service as a third-party software component to other companies and ODM/ OEM's for use on their own hardware, such as game-consoles, set-top boxes from cable-TV companies, Blu-ray Disc and DVD players, or embedded computers and SoC (System-on-a-Chip) built-in to television sets for web-enabled TVs, and other entertainment devices for the living room. The developers of Boxee have stated that their goal is to have Boxee media center software run on as many third-party hardware platforms and operating systems as possible, and they are currently developing a dedicated set-top box (hardware) called "Boxee Box" in cooperation with D-Link which is the first "Powered by Boxee" branded device to be announced. The first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008, and the first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010. One notable feature missing in Boxee is the ability to watch and record live TV received via over-the-air TV, cable or satellite signals.īoxee's software is still considered to be in its early development stages and is currently available as beta release versions for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, as well as Apple TV, for computers with x86 architecture processors. Marketed as the first ever "Social Media Center," Boxee enables its users to view, rate and recommend content to their friends through many social network services and interactive media related features. Boxee was initially a fork of the free and open source XBMC media center software which Boxee now uses as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions. Boxee (officially trademarked as BOXEE, howeever it sometimes also written as boxee with all lower case letters) is a cross-platform freeware HTPC (Home Theater PC) program with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV.
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