Been very curious about this, but I'm not making the jump until there is netflix support. The reason I want this box is because it can play local myth recordings, but that begs the question, which DB version does Boxxee support? I'm way back in R5 land with no desire to rock that boat, so I'm guessing that means no Boxee until I make a new myth box.

Anyway would like to hear anyone's experience.

Mark

I was under the impression that XBMC did have a mythtv front end app but boxee did not I may be wrong on that but I was interested in the Boxee being a frontend device as well.

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I'm using the Boxee Box but I'm just connecting to a smb share of current recordings with user readable names via what used to be called the "pretty" script (I guess it's mythlink.pl now).

There is a MythTV front-end app for the Boxee software, but I don't know if that's usable with the Boxee Box.

http://groups.google.com/group/mythboxee?pli=1

I have used the Boxee application as a frontend on a Linux PC in the same way that you can with XBMC. Boxee uses the XBMC code, so this works. I get a message on some recordings when I try to fast forward saying something like "Seeking not supported". It happens on recordings I've recorded on a Hauppauge PVR-500. DVB-T recordings are ok. I don't know if this would work with the Boxee Box.

Here is a brand new review for you...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4029/the-boxee-box-review

I was more interested in streaming TV shows with the local 'myth:' tag than running BB as a myth frontend (that would be great and all of course!). But I can't find which mythtv DB protocol BB was built with.

Am I mistaken that the DB version needs to be aligned for BB to pull the recordings from my backend?


Mark

Don't know about boxee, but XBMC can pull streaming videos from any of several mythboxes of various versions on my internal network, so alignment with a specific myth version might not be a requirement.

From what I can tell, there is no stable support for XBMC to connect to Mythtv 0.24. It connects fine to my 0.23-fixes backend. Earlier versions, i'm not sure. For the 0.24 reason, I'm not upgrading my mythbackend, as my xbmc frontend wont be able to communicate with it. The reason i say this is isnt the codebase is similar/branched for boxee from xbmc? Cheers, Nathan

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