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Boxee's Media Center Platform Gaining New Apps and More

When online video powerhouse Hulu recently released its own application for watching video, many observers interpreted the move as explaining why Hulu had asked open source media center player Boxee to remove support for its content. Hulu had been the number one type of content that Boxee users watched, and there were a lot of people who forecasted that Boxee was doomed. That's not so, though.?

Boxee officials have steadily posted workarounds for watching Hulu on Boxee, and Boxee continues to do very well on Apple TVs, where Hulu has no presence. The company is making some other new moves as well.?



VLC Media Player Out in Much-Updated Version 1.0

We've covered VLC Media Player a number of times, and it is now out in a new version 1.0.0, dubbed Goldeneye. You can download it here. It's available for the Mac, Windows and Linux, and has long been one of the best of all media players. Back in April, VideoLAN put out a call for Mac developers, and the Mac version is slicker than ever. You can use VLC Media Player to transcode videos and songs between formats, stream content, and it's well-known for handling almost any format you throw at it.