[mythtv-users] Boxee Linux Alpha Program is now public

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Mark Jenks <mjenks1968 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some people on the list have been trying to have a go at using Boxee for
> >> internet streaming, but the alpha program was private and required an
> >> invite. As of this morning they have made the alpha program public for
> the
> >> Linux and Mac clients. I think the Windows client is still private. Just
> go
> >> to boxee.tv to join and download the client. Many people have had
> success
> >> adding a button for Boxee to their mythtv menu which allows them to get
> >> access to Hulu and many other internet streams easily from within
> mythtv.
> >
> > Before people get too excited, their "Linux" is very limited to Ubuntu
> > systems (and maybe a few other related distributions).  I had no luck
> > getting this working on my CentOS MythTV installation
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
> Did you compile from source?


Yes.  AFAIK, it was the only way to do it because they don't have packages
for non-buntu installs.  It failed utterly.

Kevin
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