Boxee on 11.2?

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#1

I’m in love with my Opensuse 11.2. Love my KDE 4.4. The only thing I miss from my Ubuntu installation, is the ability to use Boxee.

I would be more than willing to compile Boxee from source. I only have 2 problems with that:

  1. I don’t know where I can find all the build-deps or what they are for that matter to build Boxee.

  2. I’m running on a Netbook. Yes, my measly Intel Atom is no fun for compiling and building.

What are my options/what can I do to get Boxee up and running on 11.2? I’ve tried searching on build service for an RPM, but I think due to legal restrictions, Boxee can’t be on there.

#2

Boxee seems to contain closed code, at least I don’t see any source available. How about checking an alternative, for example →Moovida, →MythTV or →Freevo? All of them are available via Packman.

#3

What do you mean? The source code is right here: http://dl.boxee.tv/boxee-sources-0.9.20.10711.tar.bz2

#4

Oh pardon me for relying on the Boxee-site, which did not offer a source but only binaries. Besides, that source is not of much help for you, is it?

  1. I don’t know where I can find all the build-deps or what they are for that matter to build Boxee.
  1. I’m running on a Netbook. Yes, my measly Intel Atom is no fun for compiling and building.

…and since a precompiled Boxee does not exist (as you found out already)… um, what was your question again?

#5

My question is how do I go about finding out the build-deps I’ll need in order to build Boxee.

#6

So you do want to compile it… kaykay.

Look for a file called “README.linux”, all dependencies are listed there.

#7

Okay, I’ll look into that. Thanks for the info. :slight_smile:

I hope to get this thing working so I can do a write up on how to get Boxee running on Opensuse (here’s looking at you Ubuntu…)

#8

Keep in mind, the libs might be named something slightly differently. Don’t be afraid to search using this Software.openSUSE.org

#9

If you want packages built, ask me. I’ll either do it, or get someone else to. If they are not already built.

Hmmm… usually signatures are off-topic, but in this case…

#10

This would be no easy feat. I might have to apply several patches, just to get it working. This is going to take me some time. If anyone else wants to jump in, then we can collaborate together on it.

The deps are as follows.

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), quilt, python-support, cmake,
 autotools-dev, autoconf, automake, unzip, libboost-dev,
 libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, libglu-dev, libglew-dev, libmad0-dev, libjpeg-dev,
 libsamplerate-dev, libogg-dev, libvorbis-dev, libfreetype6-dev,
 libfontconfig-dev, libbz2-dev, libfribidi-dev, libsqlite3-dev,
 libmysqlclient-dev, libasound-dev, libpng-dev, libpcre3-dev, liblzo2-dev,
 libcdio-dev, libsdl-dev, libsdl-image1.2-dev, libsdl-mixer1.2-dev, libenca-dev,
 libjasper-dev, libxt-dev, libxtst-dev, libxmu-dev, libxinerama-dev, libcurl3,
 libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libhal-storage-dev,
 libhal-dev, libpulse-dev, libavahi-common-dev, libavahi-client-dev,
 libxrandr-dev, libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev, libavutil-dev, libpostproc-dev,
 libswscale-dev, liba52-dev, libdts-dev, libfaad-dev, libmp4ff-dev,
 libmpeg2-4-dev, libass-dev, libflac-dev, libwavpack-dev,
 python-dev, gawk, gperf, nasm !amd64], libcwiid1-dev, libbluetooth-dev,
 zlib1g-dev, libmms-dev, libsmbclient-dev, libtiff4-dev
#11

isaacj87 and other interested in this. I checked with yaloki (Pascal Bleser) on this, and he recommended xbmc since it is a fork of boxee, and we have it in the buildservice. Software.openSUSE.org

#12

Hmmm, xbmc is sweet - I never really cared for “Media Centers” albeit being quite a lot into multimedia-related things, but after a few minutes of clicking and trying… nice! Thank you for that pointer!

#13

Interesting. I figured this would be an uphill battle. What patches would you need to apply?

#14

Did you miss this?

  isaacj87 and other interested in this. I checked with yaloki (Pascal  Bleser) on this, and he recommended xbmc since it is a fork of boxee,  and we have it in the buildservice. [Software.openSUSE.org](http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.2&p=1&q=xbmc)
#15

I’m checking it out myself…pretty nice

#16

I still am pretty impressed, this is a new way of enjoying media for me - the only flaw I found was that xbmc is segfaulting when “Goom” ist set as the audiovisualization-plugin and then playing an audiofile, beside that it works perfectly. I have to find my way through some special stuff offered by xbmc, but the actual core-features run really well.

As far as I see the only extra Boxee would provide would be some social-networking stuff. One advantage of xbmc is that it is mature, while boxee is indicated as “beta”.

isaacj87, you should give it a try. If you don’t mind the mentioned lacks in social networking, xbmc should do the trick.

[btw: Jonathan, actually Boxee is a fork of xbmc, right?]

#17

Sorry guys, I wasn’t trying to be difficult :shame:. Yes, Boxee is a fork of XBMC. In fact, I believe it’s just XBMC with a spit shine and hacks to get certain web content all in one place. I’ve tried XBMC before and unfortunately I can’t get it to run on my netbook (whereas I can with Boxee in Ubuntu on the same netbook). IIRC, XBMC is tailored more for setting up a Media PC to connect local content to a TV. While Boxee’s intentions are similar, it also adds a certain media on-the-go feeling that I don’t remember getting with XBMC. Is it possible to get XBMC to have all or similar functionality of Boxee and I’m just being difficult?

#18

Maybe. What is a “media on-the-go feeling”?

#19

This is only a guess . . . my understanding is that a primary differentiator intended by Boxee is their social-networking framework. Sort of a Facebook/Twitter for Boxee users.

Question back to you all: Boxee cannot serve DRM content on the Linux platform, correct? For example, Netflix’s Instant Watch is delivered via Silverlight on Windows; it can be run through Mono on Linux, but the DRM piece is proprietary built into Windows, not available on Linux. Consequently, no DRM. And since DRM is required by the Hollywood content providers with MS the enforcer, no prospect of it being open-sourced, either.

#20

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:46:02 +0000, mingus725 wrote:

> Boxee cannot serve DRM content on the Linux
> platform, correct?

That is correct, from what I’ve read of it - Boxee was actually
highlighted in this month’s Linux Format magazine, and the article makes
that point as well.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
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