Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker) [LWN.net]

Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 20:12 UTC (Fri) by Miladinoski (guest, #52970)
Parent article: Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Why doesn't Hulu just go with Boxee, fully open-source and running on all major platforms already?

Why waste time on something that's already there, it works, and you still get viewers?

I'm kinda stumped...

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Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 22:26 UTC (Fri) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link]

From a quick look, it appears that Boxee (which is partly closed source) is really intended for a TV setup, and not a desktop... which based on my experience using /other/ software with a similar design on a desktop, I'd be surprised if it provides a very nice experience at all for keyboard+mouse users.

Also, based on the website, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the Hulu application was merely a container for a flash player, running the same flash code as the other versions, making it already mostly cross-platform.

Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:09 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

> Also, based on the website, I wouldn't be surprised if
> the majority of the Hulu application was merely a container
> for a flash player, running the same flash code as the
> other versions, making it already mostly cross-platform.

Your right. I just tried it out because I like to watch Hulu, but Flash
runs like shit on my Mini-9. I figured that since I have zero problems
watching video using mplayer and whatnot then that it would work fine.

But, no. It runs WORSE then the web-client. How they could of achieved that
is amazing.

And it, does indeed, look for the adobe flash plugin at startup.