2009-01-12, 20:49
Hi everyone,
As you can see by my post-count (1 as of this) I am a completely "n00b" to this scene so please try to be patient with me.
The quick and dirty of where I am:
I applied to the Boxee beta as I'm typically a mac user at home. I got in and liked Boxee--but not its limitations. At the same time, I was playing with XBMC and found I prefered in general. I bought an AppleTV and installed both on it to play around with the concept of a simple HTPC--found that I liked it a lot but the ATV hardware was too limiting. As of yesterday I'm running on a fully-built HTPC running Windows (would prefer Linux, but I wanted Blu Ray support).
All that said...
One of the things I really liked with Boxee was it had out-of-box support for all kinds of Internet content including Hulu, Comedy Central, Youtube, and Netflix. While XBMC doesn't seem to come with that support, there appear to be a ton of scripts to add support for various media--but there seem to be lots of different scripts for the same sites, and its difficult to know what's best.
My Question:
Specifically, at first, I'd like to add support for Hulu, Comedy Central, Netflix, and YouTube. Can you provide your recommendations on what you've seen success with using XBMC?
Thanks!
As you can see by my post-count (1 as of this) I am a completely "n00b" to this scene so please try to be patient with me.
The quick and dirty of where I am:
I applied to the Boxee beta as I'm typically a mac user at home. I got in and liked Boxee--but not its limitations. At the same time, I was playing with XBMC and found I prefered in general. I bought an AppleTV and installed both on it to play around with the concept of a simple HTPC--found that I liked it a lot but the ATV hardware was too limiting. As of yesterday I'm running on a fully-built HTPC running Windows (would prefer Linux, but I wanted Blu Ray support).
All that said...
One of the things I really liked with Boxee was it had out-of-box support for all kinds of Internet content including Hulu, Comedy Central, Youtube, and Netflix. While XBMC doesn't seem to come with that support, there appear to be a ton of scripts to add support for various media--but there seem to be lots of different scripts for the same sites, and its difficult to know what's best.
My Question:
Specifically, at first, I'd like to add support for Hulu, Comedy Central, Netflix, and YouTube. Can you provide your recommendations on what you've seen success with using XBMC?
Thanks!
