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General => Users => Topic started by: ccoudsi on November 27, 2009, 07:24:24 AM

Title: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on November 27, 2009, 07:24:24 AM
I was trying to setup Hulu Player on my Hybrid Beta, I got the following error:

/var/log/pluto/129_Hulu_Player.log

== ATTEMPT FRESH START ==
1 11/26/09 22:13:14 Spawn_Device.sh 129 (spawning-device) 9624 Dev: 129; Already Running list: 15,16,18,78,19,27,28,29,70,82,89,98,125,97,21,22,93,31,26,25,23,
== FRESH START ==
1 11/26/09 22:13:15 Spawn_Device.sh 129 (spawning-device) device: 129 ip: 127.0.0.1 cmd_line: Hulu_Player
3 11/26/09 22:13:15 Spawn_Device.sh 129 (spawning-device) Can't execute Hulu_Player


Here's what I did:
1.Updated my sqlCVS
2.Updated my core "apt-get update"
3. Installed Hulu desktop using "Ubuntu 32bit" on KDE
4. Installed latest Adobe Flash player on KDE
5. Verified Hulu desktop functionality, it works !!
6. Added Hulu player to my Hybrid Orbiter similar to Game Player installation
7. After reload the router, I get the above error message??

Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: los93sol on November 27, 2009, 01:37:29 PM
I'm not certain, but it looks like the device is already started.  Probably a stupid question, but have you tried rebooting your core?
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: merkur2k on November 27, 2009, 06:24:10 PM
there are currently no packages for pluto-hulu-plugin and pluto-hulu-player so this will not work. in short, its not ready yet.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: los93sol on November 27, 2009, 06:31:09 PM
this isn't in the last build?
http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/browser/branches/LinuxMCE-0810/src/Hulu_Player
http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/browser/branches/LinuxMCE-0810/src/Hulu_PlugIn

Or is more needed than those?
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on November 27, 2009, 06:51:30 PM
Thanks for the update.
It was not clear from Thom's thread if it is ready to use or not, so I just gave it a try.
If I run the Hulu Desktop from KDE, it looks ok, but when I select a video to play it crashes while it is loading, any idea??

I installed Hulu Desktop Ubuntu 32bit from:
http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux (http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux)

This would be great, if people can use it on KDE while we're waiting for the final integration with LinuxMCE.

Update:
I changed the quality to Medium, it is better now, I can watch videos, but no Audio???
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on November 28, 2009, 03:43:25 AM
After doing some more research about the audio issue, I found out a lot of people having similar problem, which is related to the Flash player, so I uninstalled the Adobe version and modified huludesktop configuration file to use Pluto Flashplayer, still no luck???
If anybody has any idea, that would be great, because the picture is really nice, but no audio!!!! :'(

Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on November 28, 2009, 05:49:56 PM
Can someone tell me the differences in behavior between running Firefox 3.0.15 from the "Computing Tab" and running it from KDE ???
It looks like you can not hear any audio if you try to watch a movie directly under KDE even the Google Videos, but you can hear the audio if you run Firefox in the Computing tab, for both Google Videos and Hulu??? Even both Browser have the same version.

It looks like this causing the loss of audio in Hulu !!!
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: merkur2k on November 29, 2009, 04:56:11 AM
the computing tab probably runs it as root. are you using sudo to run it in kde desktop? if not, try it.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on November 29, 2009, 05:29:26 PM
merkur2k,
you're the man, it worked  :)
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: Enigmus on January 02, 2010, 05:09:00 PM
Hey, I installed hulludesktop and it runs fine from the KDE desktop.  How did you setup Hulu as a device?  I have a setup external devices before, but I don't see any way to pass the execute command for the 'Huludesktop' for an internal device/application.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on January 02, 2010, 08:03:11 PM
I'm using it from the KDE desktop, I believe the code is not ready yet to install as a device.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: Enigmus on January 03, 2010, 03:00:56 PM
Oh, ok.  I guess I'm mis-interpreting item 6 on your list on your first post of this thread.  What were you talking about?
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on January 03, 2010, 07:36:52 PM
I thought the code was ready till "merkur2k" replied to me with his comments below:
Quotethere are currently no packages for pluto-hulu-plugin and pluto-hulu-player so this will not work. in short, its not ready yet.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: Enigmus on January 04, 2010, 02:08:43 PM
ah, Ok.  Step 7 makes it seem that you had completed steps 1 through 6.
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on February 12, 2010, 04:01:25 AM
I just updated my installation to the latest update [Update 2010-02-10 22758 ], and installed Hulu, restarted my core and I got the following message below, any ideas????

====================================
According to [Update 2010-02-08 22754]
Hulu PlugIn (737,738) - Initial Beta of Hulu Support
Hulu Player (739,740) - from TSCHAK
====================================

== ATTEMPT FRESH START ==1 02/11/10 18:33:31 Spawn_Device.sh 110 (spawning-device) 3619 Dev: 110; Already
Running list: 15,16,18,108,19,27,28,29,61,64,66,77,87,21,23,25,22,26,32,109,== FRESH START ==1 02/11/10 18:33:31
Spawn_Device.sh 110 (spawning-device) device: 110 ip: 127.0.0.1 cmd_line: Hulu_Player3 02/11/10 18:33:31
Spawn_Device.sh 110 (spawning-device) Can't execute Hulu_Player== ATTEMPT FRESH START ==1 02/11/10
18:35:38 Spawn_Device.sh 110 (spawning-device) 13321 Dev: 110; Already Running list:
15,16,18,108,19,27,28,29,61,64,66,77,87,21,23,25,22,26,32,109,== FRESH START ==1 02/11/10 18:35:38 Spawn_Device.sh
110 (spawning-device) device: 110 ip: 127.0.0.1 cmd_line: Hulu_Player3 02/11/10 18:35:38 Spawn_Device.sh 110
(spawning-device) Can't execute Hulu_Player



Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: huh on February 12, 2010, 05:13:12 AM
Pretty sure it's not fully implemented yet.... I get a "cannot play media" error.  From IRC last night, seems like there is something missing...
Title: Re: Hulu installation
Post by: ccoudsi on February 12, 2010, 05:45:36 AM
Thanks, That's what I thought!!!