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The XBMC Icefilms plugin doesn't require a MU account. But there are advantages to having one. The free account doesn't allow you to pause the stream more than 5 minutes or so, and you can't fast forward or rewind the stream. And you're only allowed to stream one MU source per IP, so if you have 2 devices, only one could stream at a time without a paid account. With a paid account, you can pause, FF and rewind, and have multiple download streams, along with getting a faster download. Sickbeard is the shit. As is CouchPotato, which is a similar app I use for movies. I have both installed. But honestly, with the availability of unlimited online streaming content through ATV, I use it less and less all the time, and just stream everything.
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You see differences in websites because the information is coming from different locations, possibly in different countries, on networks with different speeds. Youtube is slow because it's being used by 3 bazillion users at any given moment. Your throughput to Youtube has absolutely nothing to do with your ISP. They have neither the time, nor the manpower to monitor their users' activity and throttle specific websites they don't like. Haven't you ever accessed Youtube from a really high speed enterprise network and compared that to your personal ISP? It's exactly the same. You're oversimplifying the way bandwidth works. It doesn't work the same for all http transfer. Usenet is of course faster because you're downloading files from server farms that have insane amounts of bandwidth on the server end, and the system is very efficient. With Usenet, you're only limited by the throughput your ISP can provide. You can't possibly expect for Youtube to have the same kind of throughput as downloading a Usenet file because they are very very different systems that transfer data in completely different ways. When connecting to Youtube, your ISP is providing much more throughput than Youtube is giving. Essentially, you're waiting on Youtube to provide the content. Your ISP isn't throttling it. And an ISP's "promise" of bandwidth is a tricky thing. Mainly because they have no control over the speed of whatever you may be downloading from. They can guarantee that if you go to the bandwidth test page link on their website, you will get the speeds that they advertised. But that's because they know exactly what you're accessing at the other end during the "test". In reality, your throughput speed is dependent on both your ISP and the server you're accessing at the other end.
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This article from the Times seems to back my perspective.
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I would recommend updating XBMC to the Eden build though. It works really well.
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OK I got XBMC on my apple TV. Can I use it to watch justin.tv videos?
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http://code.google.com/p/divingmules...downloads/list Copy that to your atv using an FTP program like Cyberduck. Then install it with the Install From Zip function in System\Ad-ons\Install from zip. Once you do that, you might have to update your librtmp file. If the plugin doesn't work after install, download the file from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?q8lswzg307ucfud Then copy that to private/var/stash/applications/xbmc.frappliance/frameworks/ on the atv. Let me know if you need more specific instructions on how to do that.
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He he... Nope. There isn't a flash supported browser. Firecore actually created support for Flash in their Couchsurfer browser, but said that the Flash performance was so bad they removed it. Couchsurfer does HTML5 video though.
Here's a good thread with all the best video plugins: http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?f=154 My favorites are Icefilms, Hulu, Sportsdevil, Justin.TV, Navi-X, Free Cable, Pandora.
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Didn't the Wii support Flash in its web browser?
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This thread got me looking into devices like the Roku, WD Live, Apple TV, etc. I came across the Logitech Revue, and it sounds awesome. It has all of the streaming that the other devices have, but it also lets you connect your cable box's hdmi output to it so that you can watch your cable TV through the device as well.
Alas, Logitech has discontinued it and Best Buy no longer sells it (even though they have a huge demo display of it). Are there any other media streaming boxes out there that let you integrate your cable TV into it? Time Warner's cable box guide interface is god awful. |
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