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. 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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] 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. 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.

Boxee'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,[9] and Linux,[10] as well as Apple TV,[11] for computers with x86 architecture processors. The first public alpha of Boxee was made available on 16 June 2008,[12] and the first public beta version was officially released for all previously supported platforms on 7 January 2010.[13]

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.[14][15][16][17] 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.[8][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Boxee 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 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.[25][26]

Contents

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  • 1 Overview
  • 2 Features
    • 2.1 Social Networking Layers
    • 2.2 Boxee AppBox Add-on Store and plugins (widgets/gadgets)
    • 2.3 Audio/Video playback and handling
    • 2.4 Format support
    • 2.5 Video playback in detail
    • 2.6 Audio playback in detail
    • 2.7 Digital picture/image display in detail
    • 2.8 BitTorrent client, interface, and torrent trackers
  • 3 Mobile software associated with Boxee
  • 4 Hardware with Boxee software integrated
    • 4.1 Boxee Box by D-Link
    • 4.2 Myka ION
    • 4.3 NUU Player
  • 5 Programming and developing
    • 5.1 Add-on apps (widgets/gadgets) and python scripts as plugins
    • 5.2 Skins, skinning, and the skinning-engine
  • 6 Limitations and known issues
  • 7 Reception
  • 8 Legality
    • 8.1 Patents
    • 8.2 Web Scraping
    • 8.3 Privacy
    • 8.4 Other
  • 9 See also
  • 10 References
  • 11 External links

[edit]Overview

Boxee 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. 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.[27][28]

Through the processing power of modern PC hardware, Boxee is able to decode high-definition video up to 1080p. 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.[29][30]

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[31] internet video plugins, and Flickr and PicasaWeb picture viewing plugins. All are available as media sources available alongside the local library. 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).[27]

Boxee 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.[32] Boxee later reinstated the feature using Hulu's RSS feeds,[33] but Hulu once again blocked access.[34][35] Boxee recently introduced a new plugin architecture based on the XUL (XULRunner) framework which enables any web-based application to be integrated into Boxee app, because of this Boxee will now use Mozilla corebase architecture for plugins, since this is the same core architecture that Firefox uses Hulu will see Boxee as "any other Mozilla browser so Hulu doesn't block the app."[36] Hulu's latest attempt to thwart Boxee involves JavaScript scrambling.[37]

Boxee also includes a built-in BitTorrent client,[28] with a frontend for it integrated into the Boxee interface, and there are also Torrent links to legal BitTorrent trackers download sites available incorporated by default. Through Boxee's Python plugin system it is also possible for end-users to add unofficial third-party plugins to enable Torrent downloads from sites such as The Pirate Bay.

Boxee source code is in majority based on the XBMC Media Center project's source code code, and the Boxee developers contribute changed to that part back upstream to the XBMC project.[8][38][39] So Boxee is partially open source and those parts are distributed under the GNU General Public License, however Boxee's social networking layer library, "libboxee", is closed source as it deals with proprietary methods of communication with Boxee's online back-end server which handles the user account information and social network communications between the users in the Boxee userbase, it is not clear if this way of using closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes the GPL linking exception or not.[40]

Another interesting aspect is how Boxee manages to play Adobe Flash content from sites such as YouTube and Hulu, and display Silverlight content from such web-based services such as Netflix. Boxee seems to be shipping with a closed source, binary-only, program called "bxflplayer", which seems to loads Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight proprietary plugins. This program communicates with the main Boxee process via shared memory and it renders the video onto screen. By using this approach, it is possible for Boxee not only to play Flash Video and Silverlight content that is protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) but also allows for the user to control the player using a remote control and other input devices that are more suitable to laid back watching. Same as with the above mentioned "libboxee", it is not clear if this way of using "bxflplayer" as closed source libraries with a GPL licensed software passes as GPL linking exception or not.

[edit]Features

[edit]Social Networking Layers

The social networking component of Boxee is its major differentiator from other media center software, in several ways, as follows.

Boxee requires registered user accounts, which form a social network of fellow Boxee users. Users can follow the activity of other Boxee users who were added as friends, and can publicly rate and recommend content. Users can also control what media appear in the activity feed in order to maintain privacy. If a user recommends something that is freely available from an internet content service then Boxee will let others users stream it directly. If a user recommends something that is not freely available then Boxee will try to show metadata, and movie trailers if it is a movie that the user recommend.[27]

The user's friends' Boxee activity feeds are displayed on the user's home screen, as is the user's own recent activity. Internet content is accessed through a sub-menu of each of the video, audio, and photo menu items, such as Video -> "My videos" and Video -> "Internet videos".[27]

In addition Boxee Beta and later has the option of monitoring your Twitter and Facebook news feeds to automatically discover links to videos, Boxee will then add those videos to your watch queue in Boxee so that you can later watch those video directly in Boxee when you want.

Boxee can also export a user's media activity feed to other social networking services such as FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr. The list of connection to such supported third-party social networking services is currently small, and this feature is one-way only, (it is for example not yet possible to monitor Twitter feeds from within Boxee), but this type of third-party integration is different from the way content sources are treated. Through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr it is then possible from those third-party social networking services for a user to choose to post the Boxee activity feed to social networking sites such as Facebook, (currently through FriendFeed, Twitter, and Tumblr apps for Facebook).

[edit]Boxee AppBox Add-on Store and plugins (widgets/gadgets)

Boxee's "AppBox" app store "App Store" which is a digital distribution service platform that serves add-on apps and plug-ins that provide online content to Boxee, the "AppBox" allows users to download new apps and addons directly from Boxee's GUI. Many of these sources are in high definition and use streaming sites' native flash and Silverlight players. Boxee has extensibility and integration with online sources for free and premium streaming content. AppBox offers content including commercial video, educational programming, and media from individuals and small businesses.

Boxee also encourages users to make and submit their own add-on apps and plug-ins to add additional content accessible from within Boxee.

[edit]Audio/Video playback and handling

Boxee can play multimedia files from CD/DVD media using the system's DVD-ROM drive, local hard disk drive, or stream them over SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing), or eventually UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) shares (not available in v0.9.14). Boxee is designed to take advantage of the system's network port if a broadband Internet connection is available, using the IMDb to obtain metadata information, thumbnails, and reviews on movies, TV.com for TV show thumbnails and metadata, Freedb for Audio-CD track-listings, and album-cover thumbnails via AMG. Boxee can stream Internet-video-streams, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as SHOUTcast). Boxee also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and a weather-forecast (via weather.com). It also has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function and many audio-visualizations and screensavers. Boxee can in addition upscale/upconvert all 480p/576p standard-resolution videos and output them to 720p, 1080i, or 1080p HDTV-resolutions.[27][28]

[edit]Format support

Boxee can be used to play/view practically all common multimedia formats (except those with DRM). It can decode these in software and optionally pass-through AC3/DTS audio from movies directly to S/PDIF output to an external audio amplifier or receiver.

Supported formats:
  • Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA)
  • Container formats: AVI, MPG/MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3GP, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS
  • Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (SP and ASP), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), Huffyuv, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, QuickTime, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak,
  • Audio formats: AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.
  • Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA
  • Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer

[edit]Video playback in detail

The Video Library, one of the Boxee metadata databases, is a key feature of Boxee. It allows for the automatic organization of your video content by information associated with the video files (movies and recorded TV Shows) themselves. The Library Mode view in Boxee allows you to browse your video content by categories such as Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors.

Boxee video-playback uses an video-player 'core' called "DVDPlayer" that was originally developed by the XBMC developers originally developed as a DVD-player for DVD-Video movies and thus includes native support for DVD-menus. This video-player 'core' today supports all the FFmpeg codecs. One relatively unusual feature of this "DVDPlayer" video-player core is the capability to on the fly parse and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, DVD-Video movies that are stored as DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) files on a harddrive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives. In addition to this, the developers of this video-player 'core' also claim that it offers better quality upscaling of all DVD-Video movies when outputing them to a 720p, 1080i or 1080p HDTV resolutions than what most high-definition television set's own native function for upscaling/upconverting video offers.

[edit]Audio playback in detail

The Music Library is one of the Boxee metadata databases and another key feature of Boxee. It automatically organizes your music collection by information stored in your music files ID meta tags, such as title, artist, album, genre and popularity.

For audio playback, Boxee includes an audio-player called "PAPlayer (Psycho-Acoustic Audio Player)" developed by the XBMC developers. Some of this audio-player core's most notable features are on-the-fly audio frequency resampling, gapless playback, crossfading, Replay Gain, cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support. PAPlayer handles a very large variety of audio file-formats, and it also supports many different tagging standards.

[edit]Digital picture/image display in detail

Boxee handles all common digital picture/image formats with the options of panning/zooming and slideshow with "Ken Burns Effect", with the use of CxImage open source library code.

[edit]BitTorrent client, interface, and torrent trackers

Boxee also includes a built-in BitTorrent client (not in the Windows version), with a frontend for it integrated into the Boxee interface, and there are also Torrent links to legal BitTorrent trackers download sites available incorporated by default. Through Boxee's Python plugin system it is also possible for the end-users to make themselves or add unofficial plugins made by third-party persons for other BitTorrent trackers.

[edit]Mobile software associated with Boxee

The Boxee Remote (spelled "boxee remote"[41]) is an application released by Boxee Inc. for the Apple Inc. iOS which allows for remote controlling of an installed and concurrently-active Boxee session on another computer via the iOS' touchscreen user interface. It was approved for the App Store on March 16, 2010[42].

Third-party developers have also released Boxee remote control apps for Android[43] and webOS[44].

[edit]Hardware with Boxee software integrated

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.[15][16][17] 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 built-in to television sets, and other entertainment devices for the living room.[18][19][20][21][22][23]

This is a list of third-party companies who sell hardware bundled with Boxee media center software pre-install, or sell uninstalled systems that specifically claim to be Boxee-compatible ("Boxee Enabled") by the manufacturer. These third-party companies directly or indirectly help submit bug fixes back upstream to Boxee, as well as to the XBMC project which Boxee in turn uses as its framework.

[edit]Boxee Box by D-Link

The Boxee Box (model "DSM-380") by D-Link is an open Linux-based set-top device and media extender currently in development. Designed to bring internet television and other video to the television via Boxee, it comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software and uses the Intel Atom CE4100 system-on-a-chip hardware platform.[45][46][47][48][49][50] The DM-380 features output ports for HDMI (version 1.3), optical digital audio (S/PDIF) connector, and RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100Mbps (100BASE-T) ethernet, and built-in 802.11n WiFi. It will also ship with a small two-sided RF remote control with 4-way D-pad navigation and full a QWERTY keypad[51] Both the case and remote for the Boxee Box was designed by San Francisco based Astro Studios.

[edit]Myka ION

Main article: Myka#Myka ION

Myka ION is an Nvidia Ion based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it comes pre-installed with Boxee, XBMC, and Hulu Desktop as applications that can be started from the main menu.[52]

[edit]NUU Player

Main article: NUU Media#NUU Player

NUU Player by NUU Media (NUU Ltd.) is an Nvidia Ion based set-top device designed to bring internet television and media stored on the home network to the living-room, it comes pre-installed with Boxee, Hulu Desktop, and a WebKit web-browser as applications that can be started from the main menu with a remote control. There's also a Skype app and Bluetooth support.[53][54]

[edit]Programming and developing

As a partially open source application and freeware software program, Boxee is developed by a commercial start-up company with the goal of someday profiting from Boxee and their social networking service, working as a distribution application framework for both major pay-per-view and independent video on demand providers.

Boxee, like XBMC Media Center (which Boxee is based upon), is a cross-platform software programmed mostly in C++ and uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer framework with OpenGL renderer for all versions of Boxee. Some of the libraries that Boxee depends on are also written in the C programming-language, but are used with a C++ wrapper and loaded via Boxee's own DLL loader when used inside Boxee.

[edit]Add-on apps (widgets/gadgets) and python scripts as plugins

Boxee features a Python Scripts Engine and WindowXML application framework (a XML-based widget toolkit for creating a GUI for widgets) in a similar fashion to Apple Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets and Microsoft Gadgets in Windows Sidebar. Python widget scripts allow non-developers to themselves create new add-ons functionality to Boxee, (using the easier to learn Python programming language), without knowledge of the complex C/C++ programming language that the rest of the Boxee software is written in. Current plugin scripts add-ons include functions like Internet-TV and movie-trailer browsers, cinema guides, Internet-radio-station browsers (example SHOUTcast), and much more.

Boxee recently also introduced an additional plugin architecture based on the XUL (XULRunner) framework which enables any web-based application to be integrated into Boxee as an app add-on. With this new plugin architecture Boxee uses Mozilla corebase architecture for those plugins. Since this is the same core architecture that Firefox uses, Hulu will see Boxee as any other Mozilla-based web-browser.

[edit]Skins, skinning, and the skinning-engine

Boxee GUI source code is based on XBMC Media Center which is noted for having a very flexible GUI toolkit and robust framework for its GUI, using a standard XML base, making theme-skinning and personal customization very accessible. Users can create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites dedicated for XBMC skins trading.

[edit]Limitations and known issues

This is a list of current software limitations in the Boxee code, (Boxee's base source code is based on XBMC Media Center software source code so Boxee has many of the same software limitations as XBMC).

  • Boxee currently cannot play any audio/music files protected/encrypted with Digital rights management (DRM), such as music purchased from the iTunes Store, MSN Music or Audible.com before DRM restrictions are lifted.
  • Boxee cannot receive TV signals from a TV tuner device attached to the computer. It is therefore not possible to watch and record live TV programs.
  • Boxee is currently only available for x86-based platforms, and a x86-64 version is only available for Windows and Linux. Boxee is not yet available for ARM, PowerPC, MIPS or SPARC processor architectures, though ARM architecture support is under development.
  • Boxee requires an DirectX 9.0 or OpenGL 1.3 with GLSL (or newer) hardware accelerated graphics GPU and matching device drivers.

[edit]Reception

In October 2008, Boxee won CEA (Consumer Electronics Association)'s i-Stage award,[55] and with it $50,000 prize money to go towards the continued development of Boxee, as well as a free booth at the 2009 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the world's largest consumer technology trade show.[56] Boxee then in turn donated half of the $50,000 prize money to the developers of XBMC.[57]

On January 9, 2009, G4 announced Boxee as the winner of their "Best of the Best products of CES 2009" award (in the "Maximum Tech" category) among all the products displayed at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2009 trade show.[58]

In January 2010, during the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 trade show, Boxee also managed to get five awards; "LAPTOP's Best of CES 2010 - Best Home Entertainment (Boxee Box)",[59] "Last Gadget Standing - CES 2010 Winner",[60] "International CES Best Of Innovations 210 - Home Theater Accessories",[61] "Popular Science - Best of CES 2010 (Products of the Future)".[62]

[edit]Legality

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[edit]Patents

For most popular video and audio codecs, Boxee includes native support through free and open source software libraries, such as LAME, libmpeg2, and libavcodec (from the FFmpeg project). Since these source code libraries are released under free and open source licenses they are legally redistributable. However, some of these compression methods algorithms, such as the popular MP3 format, are in many countries protected by software patents. Absent a license,[verification needed] this could possibly make it illegal[citation needed] in certain[which?] countries to distribute compiled versions of Boxee which includes support for these formats.[citation needed]

[edit]Web Scraping

Main article: Web scraping#Legal issues

Boxee has built-in web scraping to automatically download metadata information and online artwork from sites like IMDb, Discogs, freedb, and Allmusic. There could be some legal issues associated with web scraping in some countries, as it is against the Terms of Use policy of many websites, however the enforceability of these terms is unclear.[63]

[edit]Privacy

As part of the social networking functionality, information about what content users watch is transmitted to Boxee.tv Inc's servers. Concerns have arisen over the use of this information, as Boxee is being created by a for-profit company and possible revenue-generation models for media center applications include the sale of user activity data to advertisers and other interested parties. Boxee's privacy policy[64] does not directly address this issue.

[edit]Other

Boxee uses libdvdcss to support playback of DVD-Video movies encrypted using the CSS (Content Scramble System) encryption. The distribution of executable versions of Boxee containing this code could possibly violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S. and the Copyright Directive in European Union member countries which have incorporated it into national law. However, this has never been tested in court for open source projects.

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[edit]See also

  • XBMC Media Center, the cross-platform open source media player software that Boxee is based on.
  • Comparison of media players
  • FFmpeg, the audio and video codec suite that Boxee uses for all of its audio and video decoders.
  • Interactive television
  • Internet television
  • Smart TV
  • Web television

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