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Trying my hand at Boxee app development. It’s fun but the documentation is more of a discovery. So many questions left unanswered.
Here are the questions that took some exploring:
Question: Why can’t I get the App Title to show?
Answer: If the thumbnail URL is missing or incorrect, the title wont show
Question: What’s the first skin XML it looks for?
Answer: It’s hardwired to look for skin/Boxee Skin NG/720p/main.xml
Question: whats with the control IDs? The documentation says some controller types have ID that are hardcoded. Which controller types?
Answer: none… yet
Question: How are controls layouts layered?
Answer: working on that.
Question: What native video types are supported
Answer: Seems like the safest is MP4. FLVs are not really even supported. How it plays FLVs are kind of INSANE! It can also pull in silverlight in a plugin. This will take a lot more experimentation.
Question: What’s up with Python?
Answer: …. um… wow…. We’ll have to take some time to answer that one.
I’ve started a new subversion repository trunk to build a skeleton app. I’ll branch for actual apps.
