Posts Tagged ‘xbmc’

py2avi released!

py2avi is a python script I wrote to make it eas­ier for me to transcode video files from MKV to AVI while not for­get­ting to extract the sub­ti­tles from the MKV file. On the off chance that some­body out there in Internet-land has a sim­i­lar need, I’m releas­ing the script under the GPL 2.0. So […]

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Good While It Lasted

Hulu has caved into pres­sure from their con­tent providers and changed their ser­vice so it will no longer work with Boxee. Unfor­tu­nately this also broke the XBMC-Hulu plu­gin. Our con­tent providers requested that we turn off access to our con­tent via the Boxee prod­uct, and we are respect­ing their wishes. From the Doing hard things […]

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XBMC-Hulu Update

I’ve been using the Hulu plu­gin now for a few days and it’s great but I do run into the occa­sional prob­lem.  So I’ve been fol­low­ing the thread over at XBMC Forums about it as the plu­gin is under active devel­op­ment.  In a recent post to that thread, one of the devel­op­ers said: Please use the […]

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XBMC + Hulu = GOLD!

I’ve been home sick today and when not sleep­ing I’ve been work­ing to upgrade the ver­sion of XBMC I have installed on my soft­mod­ded XBox.  I had been run­ning the last sta­ble release, but run­ning into the occa­sional prob­lem.  First off I’ll note that Nau­tilus 2.22.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.04.1, does a crappy job of working […]

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The Xbox is Dead, Long Live the Xbox!

Which is to say, our Xbox died the other night mid-game, tak­ing with it our beloved XBMC. This evening we broke down, bought a replace­ment and I’m set­ting it up right now. Wheee!

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