Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu has taken their designed-for-widescreen, remote-friendly Desktop viewer and released it for Linux-powered systems, giving anyone with an open-source media center or Linux laptop an easier way to watch streaming video clips and movies on their much bigger screen."
Posted Oct 9, 2009 18:43 UTC (Fri)
by 0b11101 (guest, #57638)
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What could go wrong?
Posted Oct 9, 2009 20:10 UTC (Fri)
by briangmaddox (guest, #39279)
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Runs as an ordinary user here. Unless you're talking installation, which
Posted Oct 9, 2009 20:12 UTC (Fri)
by Miladinoski (guest, #52970)
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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...
Posted Oct 9, 2009 22:26 UTC (Fri)
by Kit (guest, #55925)
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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.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:09 UTC (Sat)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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Your right. I just tried it out because I like to watch Hulu, but Flash
But, no. It runs WORSE then the web-client. How they could of achieved that
And it, does indeed, look for the adobe flash plugin at startup.
Posted Oct 9, 2009 23:18 UTC (Fri)
by bk (guest, #25617)
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Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:31 UTC (Sat)
by ebiederm (guest, #35028)
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Another free but closed app on linux is great. It would be
Posted Oct 11, 2009 8:02 UTC (Sun)
by epa (subscriber, #39769)
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Posted Oct 11, 2009 8:56 UTC (Sun)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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This is very easy to do, of course. The encryption they use is a stripped-
So breaking the DRM is easy, but it would automatically be hit with a DMCA
Thankyou, USA Government and friends for keeping the world safe for piracy,
Posted Oct 12, 2009 7:16 UTC (Mon)
by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
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Doesn't this fall under the reverse engineering clause of the DMCA? There is some confusing language in there about "achiev[ing] interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs."
If not, support could still be added to Gnash / SWFDec in loadable module form. Not everyone lives in the US and Canada.
C.
Posted Oct 10, 2009 4:51 UTC (Sat)
by DDevine (guest, #60717)
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Posted Oct 12, 2009 18:04 UTC (Mon)
by pksings (guest, #93)
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It also required manual editing of the config file to even find the flash binary.
Not very useful or impressive.
Hulu Desktop
Hulu Desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1379520 2009-10-07 22:54 /usr/bin/huludesktop
most distros require root to do unless you install directly to your home
dir.
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
> 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.
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.
is amazing.
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
nice if the news authors could understand the difference.
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
down and made worthless version of SSL that is vulnerable to MiM attacks and
such. Plus the "signature" is created by taking a hash of the file size... It
is all documented online.
violation for breaking digital copyright protection schemes, or whatever is
the equivalent in Canada or the EU or whatever. (DMCA is really just a
legislation passed to enforce a international treaty if you look at it
closely)
but illegal for making compatible software.
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
> violation for breaking digital copyright protection schemes, or whatever is
> the equivalent in Canada or the EU or whatever. (DMCA is really just a
> legislation passed to enforce a international treaty if you look at it
> closely)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)
Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)