“Boxee’s performance was regrettably not as good on the Apple TV as it is on my Mac Pro. Once I got the atv-usbcreator hack installed I had problems off and on with Boxee,” Breen reports. “Some content played back nicely–shows from Revision 3, for example–while others were problematic. Just about every show I streamed via Hulu was choppy.”
“To ensure that this wasn’t a bandwidth issue (my DSL connection runs at approximately 5Mbps down) I played a few movie trailers within the Apple’s TV’s movies area. They all streamed perfectly,” Breen reports. “I checked with a Macworld colleague on his experience with Boxee on his Apple TV and it echoed mine–some crashes and poor performance from Web-based videos. This confirms that the Boxee beta on the Apple TV is very definitely a beta.”
Full article here.
“That’s Breen… Christopher Breen.”
This demonstrates how much of an overhead Flash is. Videos play fine on the Apple TV, unless they are being wrapped by Flash.
Flash on ATV? No thank you.
I’ve been using Boxee on Apple TV for almost 2 years now and it’s been running great. Had a few problems here and there with certain versions, but not much. I have my 1TB drive hooked up to my Mac Pro upstairs and it streams everything just fine through the wifi network. Before the Mac Pro I had it streaming from a 4 year old iMac and it worked equally as good.
Highly recommend it.
boxee is done! it was slow on Appletv but you were able to view content from hulu, cbs, wb the cw and several other major networks. Now you can’t get any content worth the effort. Boxee wants to go sbscription, it won’t be successful. As soon as aapl garners a sub model of their own with the major networks to run on all aapl products including
apple’s Ipad boxee is history along with cable and satelite.
firkin boxee bolox, that shiz has been alpha/beta for TOO LONG. just how patient are we supposed to be. yeah yeah its free, its also a PITFA
Still don’t know why I would want this.
ruby couldn’t cut it at aapl so he moved to palm. remember the jackass from elevation partners along with bono that said nobody would buy an iphone once the pre came out. We know how that turned out now don’t we. They’re just as delusional as you palm longs plowing more capital into a has been third rate co. Palm won’t be acquired because all the other big players have been developing their own strategy since the first iphone came out and spent a lot of money doing it only to fail. see msft, nokia, lg, samsung, mot, rimm and goog. nobody has what aapl has. get used to it.
Boxee is great on ATV if you’re streaming your own non-DRM’d (read non-iTunes) movies and TV shows. If you’re streaming web video, the ATV just doesn’t have the chops. It doesn’t make sense for me to create a redundant overlay onto the ATV interface if I can’t stream or watch what I bought from iTunes.
I had that problem with choppiness until I bought an N router. Streaming from iTunes works fine now..
For me just being able to watch all of my movies without any converting and having access from any of my iMacs 5 external drive is already Hugh. Beta but soon to betta!
Boxee’s performance was regrettably not as good on the Apple TV as it is on my Mac Pro.
How could one possibly even begin to compare the performance of ANYTHING on a woefully underpowered and updated Apple TV to something on a Mac Pro? That’s like comparing the performance of a Yugo to a Ferrari!
@TMA
I think the author is referring to flash-based web content, which makes sense given the ATV’s limited specs. My worst performance was from Hulu, which was unwatchable using the latest version of the Airport Extreme AND a wired connection.
That said, I have no problem playing back content in any format (I use ATVFlash), whether pulled from an external USB device or streamed from any wirelessly connected device on my home network.
Sounds exactly like my evening last night, glad it’s not just me
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oh yeah… and he forgot to mention how badly most web video looks on an HDTV.. it may say HD, but there is nothing “high” about it…
If only Apple would just add uPnP and DLNA, most of these hacks would just disappear.
Add Stocks, Weather, and Clock already!