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I got hulu installed on XBMC and I am having trouble starting the videos. I click play then does nothing. How can I get this media to start playing?
joebrady
2009-02-24, 05:55
You will not get any responses unless you do some reading and try to educate yourself first. Do a search of the forums for Hulu.
You will not get any responses unless you do some reading and try to educate yourself first. Do a search of the forums for Hulu.
Very high and mighty of you. I really hate it when the "experts" refuse to answer a question from a noob just because it SEEMS like common sense to them.
How about this as a strategy: call the noob out for being a clueless lazy noob, then rise above and answer the question anyway. Then suggest that next time he could probably answer the question for himself with a little effort.
That way the forum doesn't appear to be populated with pompus jerks. :rolleyes:
To aacore: Hulu stopped access to their streams by programs like xbmc and it's younger sibling boxee, due to pressure from "content providers". Nobody can watch anything from hulu right now (well, some can, but it's not as easy as it was, and if you have xbmc running on an xbox it's pretty much impossible.)
The fancast plugin is a decent second choice for now.
bgustafson
2009-02-24, 15:00
aacore, I'm having the same problem, I have the most recent release of T3CH. I get through the folders, but can't start the series. I see some discussions where PlayOn was used on the PC, but it isn't clear that it is required, since the main forum discussion hadn't mentioned it in the information I went through. Check out Hulu Thread (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42041&highlight=Hulu), anyway, I'll be searching through and if I find anything I'll let you know. Please do the same if you find anything.
Hey thanks for the responses. To that senior member, i did so some research and did know hulu didn't work with boxee. I guess i missed where it said XBMC. I will try that fancast plugin and see how that is. Thanks for the information!
Boxee is built on XBMC core code, so if it doesn't work on boxee it probably doesn't work on XBMC, and vice-versa, although not always.
PlayOn works for Hulu for now, but if the suits' twisted logic is to be applied to all applications, there's no reason why they should allow PlayOn to stream Hulu and not boxee, so don't expect it to last too long... although maybe due to the nature of how PlayOn works, it might be harder for Hulu to stop it from working.
You have to pay PlayOn $30 or $40 or so for the software. It runs on a separate PC on your network and transcodes the stream in real-time then re-streams it via UPnP to your local XBMC device. If you're okay with the fee and it works well on your computer (you can try it for free) then you can have Hulu on XBMC again right now. You need a decent PC to do the transcoding though... at least 2GB RAM, and probably something on the order of a P4 3GHZ or better/equivalent cpu. I had 1GB of RAM and it was hit/miss. Upgraded to 2GB and it worked much better. Then the Hulu plugin came out, and I dumped PlayOn. Might go back to it now though.... not sure.
joebrady
2009-02-24, 17:45
Very high and mighty of you. I really hate it when the "experts" refuse to answer a question from a noob just because it SEEMS like common sense to them.
How about this as a strategy: call the noob out for being a clueless lazy noob, then rise above and answer the question anyway. Then suggest that next time he could probably answer the question for himself with a little effort.
That way the forum doesn't appear to be populated with pompus jerks. :rolleyes:
To aacore: Hulu stopped access to their streams by programs like xbmc and it's younger sibling boxee, due to pressure from "content providers". Nobody can watch anything from hulu right now (well, some can, but it's not as easy as it was, and if you have xbmc running on an xbox it's pretty much impossible.)
The fancast plugin is a decent second choice for now.
I do not consider myself an "expert" by any means. I am on this site quite often through out the week and answer what I can, when I can. But if I see a question where I think the person hasn't taken any time to try to answer it for themself first, I'll call them out on it and tell them how to find it.
From the front page of the forums:
Support and Help Corner for XBMC end-users
Need help with XBMC? Please post a separate thread for each unique question that you have.
Make sure that you always search the XBMC Online Manual and the FAQ before posting here.
(maybe this should say search the forum also)
A simpe search of the forum for "Hulu" pulled up this thread:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45889&highlight=Hulu
(which is now the number two result, which is why they don't want a bunch of multiple thread about the same things, so it's easier to find the info you need)
Only three pages. The first post clears it all up.
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Gentlemen, decorum.
How about : Finding the threads, posting them for the new member, then asking them to search if they get stuck again...?
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Cheers
Gentlemen, decorum.
How about : Finding the threads, posting them for the new member, then asking them to search if they get stuck again...? Well, that's pretty much what I did/suggested, except I didn't post the thread link... just summarized.
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I'm no latin expert, but does that make sense w/o the "... integra est" ending? "Blessed whose way...?"