[LinuxUsers] Bravo Hulu

Sat Oct 17 01:26:38 UTC 2009

Im using a T61p.  I have had a few people tell me that the EeePCs are
not able to view Hulu.
I am able to resize the window to any size by dragging the corner of
the app window.

Chris...

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Manny <vectormax at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried resizing the video by dragging the corner of the window, but
> had no luck. Are you using the Winblows version?  jk
>
> Seriously though I could only either use it windowed or full screen,
> no in between.
>
> BTW I just installed the hulu ap on my EeePC 701.  That 630mhz celeron
> could barely keep up with the video on the lowest quality.  Lost audio
> sync after awhile.  That's what I get for being an early adopter.
> --Manny
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "I really like the interface,  just wish you could resize the image
>> when not in full screen mode."
>>
>> You can.  You can also use compiz to zoom in on the window which keeps
>> the poor flash quality during full screen from being an issue.
>>
>> I just upgraded to the newest release, as notified when opening this
>> app.  I would recommend that 64bit users avoid this for a while, it
>> seems a bit glitch.
>>
>> Chris...
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Manny <vectormax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I downloaded the hulu app yesterday.  It's the 64bit version.  I had
>>> no issues with video performance.  Liked how the buffer stayed full,
>>> even with high quality video. I am on FIOS though.
>>>
>>> I really like the interface,  just wish you could resize the image
>>> when not in full screen mode.
>>>
>>> BTW thanks for the tip Chris.  I had to do the same (edit
>>> .huludesktop) to get it working.
>>>
>>> --Manny
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Well, sorry to hear you are unhappy with your flash performance.....
>>>>
>>>> A note about the installation.  I installed this app on a few 64bit
>>>> machines and received an error saying:
>>>> "Hulu Desktop could not locate the Flash plugin.  If you do not have
>>>> it installed, please modify ~/.huludesktop with the correct location
>>>> of libflashplayer.so."
>>>>
>>>> I fixed this by adding the location of npwrapper.libflashplayer.so to
>>>> the ~/.huludesktop config file.  In my case it is located in
>>>> /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.
>>>>
>>>> Chris...
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:44 PM, John Rivera <cray4.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> yes i saw that on "linux today" and installed it, quite nice, however, all
>>>>>  of my computers running Ubuntu have poor flash performance, and hulu
>>>>> desktop inherits that since it uses the abobe flash libraries used by google
>>>>> chrome, firefox, ect..., unlike boxee, which uses its own codecs.
>>>>>
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>>>>>> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:58:22 -0500
>>>>>> From: Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: [LinuxUsers] Bravo Hulu
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>>>>>> As seen on digg.com today,  Hulu Releases A Linux Hulu Desktop Client!
>>>>>> Hulu Desktop for Linux is currently built on Fedora 11 and Ubuntu
>>>>>> 9.04. The packages should also work on any Linux distribution with
>>>>>> glib2.16 (such as Ubuntu 8.04+ and Fedora 9+). Other configurations
>>>>>> have not been tested.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just tried and tested installing this on Jaunty 32bit. Will be testing
>>>>>> this on 64bit Hardy later today.  So far it looks great.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris...
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>  -Roger Penrose
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