[SUPPORT] Hulu Video Plugin

BlueCop · 2012-06-15 20:09

(2012-06-15 20:05)croy Wrote:
(2012-06-06 19:25)crawl Wrote: ***This fix is for OS X users only!***

what device are you using? atv2? atv1?

this one is for atv2
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1106494

BlueCop · 2012-06-15 20:44

it is already possible. it is on the streaming settings page.

if you stop the episode then it won't remove from the queue. If you skip forward to the next item then it will remove from queue. It adds an extra item to launch the plugin to remove from queue after the main video.

drummerboy032 · 2012-06-17 04:19

(2012-06-09 14:05)thecrater Wrote: Hello guys, i've just re-installed the latest version 3.4.5 and I can't get it to work at all. Every time I click to launch it I get a script error. Anyone else experiencing this problem. I'm in the UK. cheers

i'm having the same issue here. running on ATV2

edit: missed your post a couple threads above BlueCop. i'm trying method in that link now! thanks!

samukas · 2012-06-20 17:14

Hey all!

First of all, I just read a few pages back (unfortunately, not the whole thread), and I hope that you are felling a lot better, BlueCop, and that you get better soon!

I've been using this plugin since just this weekend and loving it! It's so great that this runs on a browser-less environment unlike "XBMC Flicks", so I'm able to run Hulu on the ATV2 which is a big plus!

A few problems I encountered:
- I did have a few troubles with "librtmp.0.dylib". The one that came with XBMC was, of course, out of date. But as soon as I overwritten with the one a few pages back, XBMC crashed at launch even before showing the GUI. The only one I could find that didn't do that was the one available at SuperTV.
- It seems that I'm having some issues with playlists. Whenever I enable either network pre-rolls, pre-ads or ads during the show, the episode itself will never play, only the ads. For me to be able to watch the actual show I have to disable everything. While I'm not complaining that I don't see ads (lol), I do like the network pre-roll before the show.
- Whenever I pause in the middle of a video, after I press play again it kind of messes up the video for a while. Screen goes green-ish, goes backwards for a few seconds, drops a lot of frames and when it reaches the timestamp of the moment when I paused it, everything's good again.
- Also there is some timeout thing that if it stays in pause for too long , you will have to start playing again.
- Are there any issues with the "Remove from Queue" feature? How does it work exactly? Sometimes my videos are removed from the queue, sometimes not. I always let the credits roll out till the end (not sure if it's needed, but I do it just in case), but still not all videos are removed automatically. I end up doing "Context Menu - Remove from Queue", so it's not too bad.
- Not a problem, as this is stated in the opening post, but someone who needs captions/subtitles and is using an atv2 might want to know this. Subtitle decoding on the atv2 really is SLOW. It takes around 2 mins or more to decode the stream before a 40-min show starts playing. If subtitles are not enabled the same show takes around 10-15 seconds or so.

Anyway, that's about it... I'm honestly happy with this plugin. Not only it allows me to watch Hulu Plus @ 720p, but also those damn shows and clips that are web-only. If only they also enabled 720p versions of those, I'd be in heaven! Because they do have them, they're just not public.

By the way, I added a 'favourite' or 'bookmark' to access Hulu on the default Confluence skin.
If anyone uses a skin or method to access plugins even quicker, let me know Smile

tknorris · 2012-06-21 18:49

Is anyone else getting an ERROR 403 since yesterday? Everything was working great, and then suddenly I started seeing this in my log starting yesterday:

Code:

12:23:57 T:140401967998720   ERROR: Error Type: <class 'urllib2.HTTPError'>

12:23:57 T:140401967998720   ERROR: Error Contents: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

12:23:57 T:140401967998720   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.hulu/default.py", line 12, in <module>

                                                import resources.lib.common as common

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.hulu/resources/lib/common.py", line 417, in <module>

                                                checkToken()

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.hulu/resources/lib/common.py", line 142, in checkToken

                                                login_queue()

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.hulu/resources/lib/common.py", line 286, in login_queue

                                                data = postAPI(action,parameters,True)

                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.video.hulu/resources/lib/common.py", line 323, in postAPI

                                                response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen

                                                return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 406, in open

                                                response = meth(req, response)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 519, in http_response

                                                'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 444, in error

                                                return self._call_chain(*args)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain

                                                result = func(*args)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default

                                                raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

                                            HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

12:23:57 T:140403746047872   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.hulu

From that point forward, nothing has worked since the script fails when selected.

Edit: As a follow up, after looking at the code, I've isolated the problem down to the Hulu authentication in the add-on. I can kind of work around it by turning Login off. Needless to say, when I do that I no longer have access ot my subscription or queue menu choices in the addon.

kreeturez · 2012-06-23 18:15

@tknorris: No issues with login here; Queue and Subscriptions still working fine... The wife woulda certainly noticed if it'd gone down: uses this daily! ;-)

Definately looks like an Auth error.
It's a long shot, but perhaps try changing your password on the site (and accordingly in the plugin) to something simple (try without special characters if that's not already the case) to see if that narrows it down.

tknorris · 2012-06-23 18:18

Thanks for the comment. You are right. After several days of it not working, last night, I asked my wife and she said "Oh yeah, a window popped up and I put in our password"...Needless to say, she put in the wrong password...You have no idea how much I went through trying to figure out if the Hulu API had somehow changed and broken the plugin.

kreeturez · 2012-06-23 20:49

Haha; long as it's sorted now!

(2012-06-23 18:18)tknorris Wrote: Thanks for the comment. You are right. After several days of it not working, last night, I asked my wife and she said "Oh yeah, a window popped up and I put in our password"...Needless to say, she put in the wrong password...You have no idea how much I went through trying to figure out if the Hulu API had somehow changed and broken the plugin.

adox · 2012-06-23 21:26

Just on the que function, are you guys setting up ques on your desktop and then accessing through ATV2?

kreeturez · 2012-06-24 15:50

Yup; specify your credentials in the Add-On Settings and the options will appear in the add-on; no matter what platform you use.

(2012-06-23 21:26)adox Wrote: Just on the que function, are you guys setting up ques on your desktop and then accessing through ATV2?

BlueCop bipedal omnivore Posts: 1,657 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 70	2012-06-15 20:09 Post: #581 (2012-06-15 20:05)croy Wrote: (2012-06-06 19:25)crawl Wrote: *This fix is for OS X users only!* what device are you using? atv2? atv1? this one is for atv2 http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1106494
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BlueCop bipedal omnivore Posts: 1,657 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 70	2012-06-15 20:44 Post: #582 it is already possible. it is on the streaming settings page. if you stop the episode then it won't remove from the queue. If you skip forward to the next item then it will remove from queue. It adds an extra item to launch the plugin to remove from queue after the main video.
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tknorris Junior Member Posts: 39 Joined: May 2012 Reputation: 1	2012-06-23 18:18 Post: #587 Thanks for the comment. You are right. After several days of it not working, last night, I asked my wife and she said "Oh yeah, a window popped up and I put in our password"...Needless to say, she put in the wrong password...You have no idea how much I went through trying to figure out if the Hulu API had somehow changed and broken the plugin.
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adox Junior Member Posts: 37 Joined: Jun 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-06-23 21:26 Post: #589 Just on the que function, are you guys setting up ques on your desktop and then accessing through ATV2?
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kreeturez Member+ Posts: 139 Joined: Aug 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-06-24 15:50 Post: #590 Yup; specify your credentials in the Add-On Settings and the options will appear in the add-on; no matter what platform you use. (2012-06-23 21:26)adox Wrote: Just on the que function, are you guys setting up ques on your desktop and then accessing through ATV2?
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