[RELEASE] Hulu (Video) Plugin for XBMC

rectalogic Wrote:Fancast has a lot of Hulu content (which they stream direct from Hulu) and does not suffer from the same pid encryption issues. I uploaded my Fancast plugin to github.

http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-fancas...ree/master

I installed this into the plugin directory and added it to sources but I can't get it to play any of the series. I can see the list and the thumbnail but when I press play, nothing happens. I'm on a xbox.

Does anyone know what could be causing the problem?

raymondh Wrote:I installed this into the plugin directory and added it to sources but I can't get it to play any of the series. I can see the list and the thumbnail but when I press play, nothing happens. I'm on a xbox.

Does anyone know what could be causing the problem?

In both apps the lists or episodes show up just fine. I was able to actually get some episodes to play in XBMC but when I try to in Boxee I click Play but nothing happens.

EDIT: It actually does work in Boxee. I selected the first "The A Team" episode in both XBMC and Boxee and the videos played just fine. Maybe I just needed to wait even longer while it was buffering. Thanks a lot @rectalogic

Things were working on Fri night EDT with the dirty hack. Which was great.
As others have reported Sat morning things seemed to break again.

I have the dirty hack, as well as the subscription version with the dirty hack. I also grabbed the fancast script.

All the scripts currently will show lists of shows. Not all shows will give me episode lists , any that do the episodes do not seem to want to play.

With the fancast script I have similar issues though I seem to be able to always get episode lists at least. I will say that based on one of the recent above comments I did manage to get the first A-team episode to run. So that was rather odd .. is the a-team streamed from somewhere not hulu??

I want to extend my thanks to everyone thats worked on this script and continues to work on the current problems. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

I forked the svn Hulu plugin and created a branch that uses gnash to decode the pid directly using the sec.swf hosted at hulu.com. Edit the plugin settings to configure the path to your local gnash executable.

http://github.com/rectalogic/xbmc-hulu-p...tree/gnash

Spent some time searching, but does anyone know where there's a already built Gnash for Mac OS? Thanks.

EDIT: http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gn...30462.html

(another 30 seconds works wonders some days.)

jonm42 Wrote:Spent some time searching, but does anyone know where there's a already built Gnash for Mac OS? Thanks.

I don't think so. It's actually a bit of a pain to build.

I downloaded the source tarball then used MacPorts to install dependencies:


antigraingeometry will fail to build, so when you get the build error, do this to fix it and continue:


Then configure and build gnash:


Then configure the plugin to use /opt/local/bin/dump-gnash (the /opt/local/bin/gnash script doesn't work with the dump gui, so have to explicitly reference dump-gnash)

jonm42 Wrote:Spent some time searching, but does anyone know where there's a already built Gnash for Mac OS? Thanks.

EDIT: http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gn...30462.html

(another 30 seconds works wonders some days.)

I had come across this download as well but I'm stuck. Do I need to compile this or can I just change...

<setting id='gnash_path' type ="text" label="30020" default="/opt/local/bin/gnash"/>

...to point to this folder?

Thanks for all the hard work, I didn't even know about the hulu plugin 'till it was gone...

The gnash/hulu plugin ALMOST works for me. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, the official atlantis release from the PPA. I've edited the settings.xml to point to /usr/bin/gnash where ubuntu drops it. I get all the way past selecting my resolution and all I get is a black screen. The only way out is to kill -9 xbmc....

Let me know if I can provide any more information on this one, or if there's some sort of obvious PEBKAC issue here (I suspect the later).

-Rupert

tastypopsicle Wrote:I had come across this download as well but I'm stuck. Do I need to compile this or can I just change...

<setting id='gnash_path' type ="text" label="30020" default="/opt/local/bin/gnash"/>

...to point to this folder?

Nope, this is a non-trivial build process... I'm doing a boatload of port installs as we speak.

rupert Wrote:The gnash/hulu plugin ALMOST works for me. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, the official atlantis release from the PPA. I've edited the settings.xml to point to /usr/bin/gnash where ubuntu drops it. I get all the way past selecting my resolution and all I get is a black screen. The only way out is to kill -9 xbmc....

First check the xbmc logs for anything interesting.

Second, check if your gnash is able to decode a sample pid directly: