Boxee continued...

So, After a full days use of Boxee I figured out a few problems I was having.

First, the media folders I had my videos in were not being found from the scans I was running for video. Weird... Considering they were (testing phase) both AVI video files which are supported, I couldn't figure it out. After some deep research, it turns out you have to name your files under their specific formats (I'm sure there is a way to make it work to your format, but I haven't had time to look into that). So it turns out I had to make the format from rambo-firstbloodII(1985) to rambo.first.blood.part.II.(1985).avi. This allowed Boxee to find the avi and collect the data from IMDB, which is a cool perk too. Minus the pain in the ass to eventually have to change all my movies (well over 200 on my hard drive, it's really nice to get a description about the movie I'm going to watch, and then get the IMDB rating on it too.

Second, I was having a problem with playing local video files (only AVI). So I read on the forums of Boxee some fixes, turns out I had to update my directX player. So I got the link to the updater (download here) and ran it, updated it, and without even having to restart Boxee, it worked. I've heard stories about it still not working for some people, but it seems to work more so than not.

So this is more so a guide for you following my blog and have tried out Boxee on my recommendation, as it's still in beta and is not perfect, and could have run into the same problems as me.

Now it's dinner time for me, I might post about another free program tonight, and I hope I helped you out!