Jamcast

Thanks, that's very nice of you to say.

What sorts of challenges did you have with setup with the Boxee? I've not had anyone stop by yet to report trying Jamcast with Boxee, so it would be great to hear about your experience!

Thanks!

Hi Dan,

Sounds like you're almost there. Have you installed Jamcast on a Windows XP computer? If so, you'll need to make sure that your audio card is set to record from Stereo Mix which is how Jamcast will capture your Spotify audio. Check out this video to see how:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiW4lj5ZUNc

Hope this helps. Let us know, Jamcast is starting to get some attention in the Boxee user community and it would be helpful to know what people's experiences are like.

Thanks!

Hi Dan,

OK, could you paste your medialog.txt to http://pastebin.com and then share it here so I might have a look? The logfile will hopefully give me some clues as to what is happening. The topic starter above mentions having to tweak some stuff but he did get it working... let's see if we can't do the same.

Thanks!

Hi Dan,

OK, thanks for posting that. Let's try a couple of common tweaks and see where it leads... I can see the Boxee making requests and Jamcast responding appropriately but the Boxee doesn't like what it's getting back, this much seems clear.

Open Jamcast Server Manager and visit the Devices tab, then find the correct list item for the Boxee device and right-click and choose Properties. Set ForceMP3CaptureStream to True, then Apply your changes. Restart the Boxee (might be important) and see if you get different results.

If that doesn't work, try setting EnableSeekTrickMode to True following the same procedure above. You should leave ForceMP3CaptureStream True while you try this setting out as well. You can also try with ForceMP3CaptureStream as false if you like.

If neither of these work, please paste the logfile again so that I can verify that the changes all took as expected.

I have a feeling that this will get you there, we'll see... Good luck.

Thanks!

Scott

Hi Dan,

Great.

With your logfile and this feedback I was able to add a system device profile to Jamcast for Boxee so that ForceMP3CaptureStream is automatically set to True when the Boxee is detected. So, in the future the Virtual Soundcard should just work with no fuss.

I've sent you a PM.

Thanks and enjoy!

Hi!

First, did Jamcast identify the Boxee? You can tell by whether or not the Boxee icon appears in Jamcast Server Manager on the Devices tab.

When you locate the Boxee in the list of devices and open the Properties up, what are the settings you have? As far as I know, the correct settings are:

ForceMP3CaptureStream = true
EnableSeekTrickMode = false

If you have EnableSeekTrickMode = true, this may be causing the stuttering.

Let me know what you find out.

Thanks!

Having a similar issue. If I use the enableseektrickmode to true then I can receive the stream on my boxeebox, but it stutters at a maddening rate. If I use enableseektrickmode to false, then it will not play at all on the boxee.

Hey guys,

An update on this issue with Boxee and the Virtual Soundcard...

The latest update from Boxee does indeed break the Virtual Soundcard -- the device is now doing an incremental download of audio streams that presumes the entire stream from start to finish is available and can be requested in chunks. This doesn't work with the Virtual Soundcard since it is "live". We've seen this choice of implementation on other devices as well, and even implemented a hack to get around it which works with some of those devices, but unfortunately with the Boxee it causes terribly stuttered playback.

At this time we're looking to submit an issue report to the Boxee engineers and will see where that dialog leads (if anywhere). Their support seems to be pretty responsive, so I'm optimistic and will keep everyone updated as the issue progresses.

Thanks!