ABC iView Content Now Streaming Through Boxee

14 responses to “ABC iView Content Now Streaming Through Boxee”

1. 

   Curious

   March 7, 2011

   Is this official support from the ABC? Why haven’t they announced it? They make big announcements when they extend their service to $2000 TVs and the iPad, but when it comes to a free service they say nothing…

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   1. 

      Bruce

      March 7, 2011

      This is not an official plugin, it is not supported by the ABC.

      As long as Boxee allow these unofficial ports of copyrighted content they’re not going to make friends amongst the content-holders or networks.

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         Curious

         March 9, 2011

         I think the logical solution is for ABC to work with Boxee and other similar services (Windows Media Center, XBMC) and then there wouldn’t be unofficial ports.

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         noisymime

         March 9, 2011

         This must be in some way official as Boxee won’t let 3rd parties add the feed files required for things to appear in the search results like this. I wrote the unofficial Boxee iView app and it was rejected for inclusion in the official Boxee repos etc because it wasn’t authorised by the ABC.

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   Jason Cartwright

   March 7, 2011

   This happened December 4th, 2010 – http://www.techau.tv/blog/boxee-pulls-abc-shows/

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   1. 

      Angus Kidman

      March 7, 2011

      Thanks Jason — looks like it took ’em quite a while to fix it!

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3. 

   Tim

   March 7, 2011

   The problem’s with the picture, not the sound. When a video starts, the display shows the ABC iView website ‘underneath’ boxee (so it’s un-navigable). Sound starts normally, but the display remains ‘stuck’ until I alt+tab away and back.

   I’m on Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit. Frustratingly, the 64-bit version doesn’t play nice with Boxee for a few reasons the problem is probably something to do with that.

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      Angus Kidman

      March 7, 2011

      Sorry Tim, my misreport!

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   woodsdog

   March 7, 2011

   Hopefully a XBMC intergration is just around the corner… I know their is an add on of sorts, but some prob’s I think… itching to have time to test it out

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5. 

   Aaron De Vries

   March 7, 2011

   sweet! works with my Boxee Box, just have to use to the cursor to click play on the iview site after a show is selected

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   1. 

      Calvin Lichty

      March 8, 2011

      It already is. Download the repo from here: http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-catchuptv-au/

      He has made addons for 7, Ten, SBS and ABC iView. Everything works pretty well but Ten’s media is pretty stagnant (still only showing shows aired in 2010).

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   Robbo

   March 8, 2011

   Boxee should change its name to “Bugee”. Great idea but so many problems with streaming it’s not worth the bother. Crashes incessantly, feed buffer runs out of content, drops the signal, etc. It’s a great idea and maybe it works in the USA but is certainly isn’t worthy of the time and frustration here in Oz…

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   1. 

      Tim

      March 8, 2011

      The platform is definitely pretty buggy but I almost never encounter any of these ‘mission critical’ problems. My wifi drops out occasionally, which is pretty annoying, but that’s to do with my OS (and, it must be said, geography) rather than Boxee.

      The bugs I get are of the “mild hassle” variety. Unavailable streaming content, unrecognised media, not updating watched folders fast enough, stupid music player etc.

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7. 

   Damo

   March 23, 2011

   OK – I’m new to Boxee repos, but not repos in general. There should be a URL which is the repo, right? So where is it? I see the downloadable zips on the various repo project sites, which I assume install the repo straight into the app.. so where in the Boxee file structure (on Windows/Mac) do I drop them?

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