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2009-02-18, 20:08
(This post was last modified: 2009-02-18, 20:51 by ptaylor.)
Well, it wasn't there yesterday when I was testing. I admit that yesterday was my first time messing with rtmpdump, though.
I have a debug log from yesterday for a particular episode and the PID is 32 characters long with no tilde characters. The same show today has a huge PID with a tilde dead center. This output is from the get_hulu perl script that comes with rtmpdump.
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it's kind of pointless now since hulu seems to have blocked access
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CptKen
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As someone with no experience writing plugins posing a question to the great plugin writers of XBMC:
Is this a temporary issue that you see as fixable, or is this essentially the death of Hulu on XBMC?
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rwparris2
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For the curious:
To stream from Hulu, we need a video's "pid". This pid is required to obtain the location of the stream, which is then passed on to xbmc.
Before Hulu's recent changes, we were able to grab the pid from an xml file that described the video.
However, the pid listed on that page is now encrypted. Until we figure out how to decrypt it, we simply cannot access the streams.
So to answer rashid420's question, they blocked access by encrypting necessary information.
To answer CptKen, yes, it is "fixable", but whether or not it actually will be fixed depends on how smart the XBMC community is, and how much time we want to put into this.
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sion28
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I guess it'll be Playon then... :-( And I missed out on the beta-tester discount.