2009-02-25, 10:37 PM
Anyone know if there are plans for this? Anyone working on it?
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2009-02-25, 10:41 PM
No, I have no plans to build in Hulu support. I'm outside the US so cant use the service.
A plugin developer might add support for it though.
2009-02-25, 11:05 PM
whurlston said he might look into writing a hulu plugin. But he's had a few setbacks lately, so there's a lot on his list way above that. I'm trying hard not to bug him about the NetFlix plugin (which for me is essentially broken at this point), so let's not bring up hulu.
Besides, the way I understand things, some of what he's doing for the new NetFlix plugin may well be applicable to Hulu (ie, gather and order a list of movies/shows from an RSS or similar feed, display them to the user, launch a browser window with the appropriate player - the broad strokes are the same between the two), so patience will be best. For now, I get by with a Custom Task that launches IE to http://www.hulu.com. My remote has mouse control, so I can make it work. I'm the only one who can use it though - the WAF is zero.
2009-02-25, 11:37 PM
johnsonx42 pretty much summed it up for me. It's on my todo list but I don't know when I'll get to it.
2009-02-26, 02:00 AM
johnsonx42 Wrote:whurlston said he might look into writing a hulu plugin. But he's had a few setbacks lately, so there's a lot on his list way above that. I'm trying hard not to bug him about the NetFlix plugin (which for me is essentially broken at this point), so let's not bring up hulu. LOL WAF, that's why I'm here too 
2009-02-26, 03:52 AM
Just so you know, since all the videos are wrapped in a flash container, any plugin will probably need to launch IE to actually play them. A mouse would still be needed for control.
2009-02-26, 07:44 AM
I've been using PlayOn - I rarely watch recordings on my PC directly anymore - it's tucked away in the office upstairs.
To my knowledge, the Netflix plugin doesn't work on remote devices like the PCH anyway. PlayOn allows me to use the PCH for Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ESPN, CNN & Youtube (I've never bothered w/ youtube though). Adding that on top of GBPVR, the PCH has been the perfect A/V device. $30 wasn't bad (although it might be $40 now), and it's vastly improved over the beta version. I know many people complain about Hulu outages from time to time, but I know there was a period where Hulu changed some things up in their API a couple of times. A GBPVR plugin would have had the same issues as PlayOn in that regard.
GBPVR v1.4.7
Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz 4 GB RAM, 160GB system drive 640GB recording drive PVR-500 - analog cable stations HDHomeRun - ASTC via antenna nVidia GeForce 8600GT 1 PCH @ 1080p componenent (was NTSC via composite) 1 PCH @ 1080p HDMI (was component)
2009-02-26, 07:52 PM
I too looked into a Hulu plugin... but here's the catch.
It's Flash, so you need IE (or other browser). You can link to the page for a video, but it will not start full screen. (That would have to be built into Hulu's player, and then you could do something like: http://www.hulu.com/series/episode?fullscreen=true ) So, with the catches, I decided not worth the time... though I do want it. How do you use PlayOn? With the PCH? Does it go through GBPVR? Or does it replace GBPVR? (Don't like that.) (PS... if Hulu ever decides to do something with Silverlight... we may be able to do something... Silverlight is more flexible... IMO)
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2009-02-26, 08:28 PM
whurlston Wrote:Just so you know, since all the videos are wrapped in a flash container, any plugin will probably need to launch IE to actually play them. A mouse would still be needed for control. With some flash content (Youtube/Zero Punctuation) you can use an axShockwaveFlash control on a standard Winform. The url and FlashVars can be a little tricky. The benefit being you don't get the rest of the junk on the web page, and it can be easier to feed events (like a space for pause) into the Flash control. Have no idea if it would work with Hulu, though
2009-02-27, 12:31 AM
whurlston Wrote:Just so you know, since all the videos are wrapped in a flash container, any plugin will probably need to launch IE to actually play them. A mouse would still be needed for control. With a program like EventGhost, I can map remote buttons to mouse movement and clicks. For example, I could map the Pause and Play buttons to a sequence of events that would move the mouse cursor to the location of the pause/play button in Hulu, and then do a left-click. It wouldn't work for skipping, but at least the most used function would work. |
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