<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Calvin Harrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charrig_mythtv@bellsouth.net">charrig_mythtv@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Nick F wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brad DerManouelian<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I leave the frontend running and I added an item to the main menu to<br>
> > launch boxee. Select it and use boxee normally with my remote<br>
> and exit<br>
> > when I'm done - then I'm back in the frontend. Even my 11 year<br>
> old can<br>
> > do it. :)<br>
> By the way, I figured out how to do that by going here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide</a><br>
><br>
> So I added this to mainmenu.xml:<br>
> <button><br>
> <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type><br>
> <text>Launch Boxee</text><br>
> <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action><br>
> </button><br>
><br>
><br>
> Wow - thanks. That was easy!<br>
><br>
> And - without me doing anything special to set it up - boxee<br>
> understood my Microsoft MCE remote and happily worked with it, and<br>
> exit took me straight back to Myth. Boxee is really slick - love that<br>
> user interface, and now being embedded into myth and working with the<br>
> remote - it's almost like it's part of the same package!<br>
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</div>How exactly do you get boxee? I went to the website that required me to<br>
register, which I did. But I couldn't find anywhere to download anything.<br>
Read on and found that I need an "Invite"? Can someone please invite me?<br>
<br>
Thanks...<br>
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<div><div class="Wj3C7c"><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank"></a>I read somewhere that it is in limited alpha and you get a copy by being recommended by someone with a copy.</div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>fyi: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee</a></div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>