Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Great price, I have to admit. I suppose if you were familiar with it, it would be a good idea. I might suggest putting a howto on the wiki for those who give up on lirc. I'll try to get to it if I can. Things have picked up this week so it might be next week. Cpufreq-set doesn't seem to work on my pentium 4. Are you over clocking your processer? Not overclocking. Not all CPUs are scalable. It depends on the CPU and the Linux driver for it. Try the following: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies If you get nothing or just one frequency, it probably won't scale. Sometimes there is a setting in the BIOS to enable it, but again it may just not be capable. My main, server/freevo box has an AMD Athlon x2 and it can scale. The freevo box in my bedroom is a P4 generation Celeron and it cannot scale. I don't scale mine above the max frequency it is capable of. Really, the who purpose of not running it full speed all the time is that probably 70-90% of the day, it is sitting more or less idle. I scale it down to 1 Ghz (from 3 Ghz) to save on power and make it easier to keep cool. A couple more tips: 1. Flashaid. The results were noticeably better. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/ I might have to check into that. I don't really have a desktop per se on that pc, nor do I have firefox (I launch things in Chrome, if needed) but I might try it out. Overall though, with the processor running at full speed, and hardware acceleration turned off, Flash generally seems to work fine. 2. Volume I like the sound up all the way when I launch hulu. Turn up the sound on the remote or with alsamixer, run '/sbin/alsactl -f asound.state store' to save the settings, then add a' /sbin/alsactl -f /home/freevo/asound.state restore' to your hulu startup script. I'll add this to the wiki too, when I cease to find any further tweaks. (Which, granted, may be the present) Another good trick. Hulu generally is more or less the same as most of my video files I play through Freevo, so I haven't had much volume issues. I pretty much keep my alsamixer volumes at around 85 and adjust the volume on the TV instead. On a side rant, I have to applaud Hulu for giving me a good legal way to use their site, and especially for doing so on Linux. No longer need to resort to rtmpdump. Agreed. There seems to be rumors that they may drop support since they have Hulu+ for set top boxes (Hulu Desktop came out first), but so far it has kept working. I haven't seen an update in quite a while though, so that might indicate something. Preston -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
Great price, I have to admit. I suppose if you were familiar with it,
it would be a good idea. I might suggest putting a howto on the wiki
for those who give up on lirc.
Cpufreq-set doesn't seem to work on my pentium 4. Are you over clocking
your processer?
A couple more tips:
1. Flashaid. The results were noticeably better.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-aid/
Run the wizard, and it creates a bash script that removes flash,
installs the beta flash plugin, and sets some some stuff in
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg. You have then reset your .huludesktop as
flash_location = /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, but after
that, it definitely works better. Alternately, you could just edit this
script it produced:
#!/bin/bash
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
cd
/home/dan/.mozilla/firefox/ge2hn4w7.default/extensions/flash...@lovinglinux.megabyet.net/chrome/content/tmp
rm -f *flash* wget http://updates.webgapps.org/flashplayer32
tar xvf *flash* libflashplayer.so sudo chown root:root
libflashplayer.so sudo chmod 0644 libflashplayer.so sudo mv
libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ rm -f *flash* sudo ln
-s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
TWEAK=$(cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg | grep 'OverrideGPUValidation')
if test -z ${TWEAK};then
echo 'OverrideGPUValidation=true' | sudo tee -a /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
fi
cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg | sed '/EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1/d' | sudo tee
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
2. Volume
I like the sound up all the way when I launch hulu. Turn up the sound
on the remote or with alsamixer, run '/sbin/alsactl -f asound.state
store' to save the settings, then add a' /sbin/alsactl -f
/home/freevo/asound.state restore' to your hulu startup script. I'll
add this to the wiki too, when I cease to find any further tweaks.
(Which, granted, may be the present)
On a side rant, I have to applaud Hulu for giving me a good legal way to
use their site, and especially for doing so on Linux. No longer need to
resort to rtmpdump.
On 08/12/2011 11:04 AM, Preston Hagar wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote:
You did what instead of figuring out lirc? That seems harder than using
lirc.
The remote I use, on linux, just emulates a USB keyboard and mouse.
Most of the special keys like play, pause, fast forward, etc. are hard
coded to be the keyboard shortcuts for Windows Media Center. WMC and
Xine share a lot of short cuts, but not all of them. For the ones
that weren't the same, I just got the keycode the remote sends and
remapped it to the shortcut key Xine/Freevo expects.
It vary likely isn't easier, but I had never used LIRC before and have
used keyboards and key mapping before. Although I am sure LIRC is
nice to use, after spending a decent amount of time getting Freevo
setup how I wanted it (right resolution, using nfs mounted dirs for
TVs in other rooms, etc.) I got tired and just hacked up the remote
with stuff I already knew and understood.
It isn't something I would recommend, although if anyone has a similar
remote or wants to get one, I am glad to share how I set it up if it
would help out. I actually just have a Logitech Harmony emulate the
cheap $7 remote and use the USB/IR that came with the remote now.
Preston
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Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: You did what instead of figuring out lirc? That seems harder than using lirc. The remote I use, on linux, just emulates a USB keyboard and mouse. Most of the special keys like play, pause, fast forward, etc. are hard coded to be the keyboard shortcuts for Windows Media Center. WMC and Xine share a lot of short cuts, but not all of them. For the ones that weren't the same, I just got the keycode the remote sends and remapped it to the shortcut key Xine/Freevo expects. It vary likely isn't easier, but I had never used LIRC before and have used keyboards and key mapping before. Although I am sure LIRC is nice to use, after spending a decent amount of time getting Freevo setup how I wanted it (right resolution, using nfs mounted dirs for TVs in other rooms, etc.) I got tired and just hacked up the remote with stuff I already knew and understood. It isn't something I would recommend, although if anyone has a similar remote or wants to get one, I am glad to share how I set it up if it would help out. I actually just have a Logitech Harmony emulate the cheap $7 remote and use the USB/IR that came with the remote now. Preston -- FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent, thanks very much! If I may offer what I have found: 1. Setting screen to 640x480 and setting the quality to low (look for at the bottom of the screen) seemed to greatly smooth the picture quality on my old computer. Unable to make freevo work at 640x480 (/etc/freevo/freevo.conf - didn't make any difference, freevo was too big!!), I wrote a quick script to launch it as such: /usr/bin/xrandr -s 640x480 /usr/bin/huludesktop /usr/bin/xrandr -s 800x600 2. Finding the mythtv documentation, I got lirc working by adding the '-r' as follows: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hulu_Desktop_Integration#LIRC_Configuration Followed, of course, by a service lirc restart. Reading the output from irw, I changed my remote type and my button_name_menu in /home/freevo/.huludesktop lirc_remote_identifier = Hauppauge_350 button_name_menu = Go I have searched far and wide for documentation on how to add other buttons than the following six, but have found none. If anybody has any tips, please send along. button_name_up = Up button_name_down = Down button_name_left = Left button_name_right = Right button_name_select = OK button_name_menu = Go Thanks again - great wiki article. When I get a day off (eventually), I'll try to add a couple of my own. Those are some great ideas to add in. I'll let you add them since you are probably more familiar with them then I am. I run Freevo and Hulu at 1366x768, which is I'm sure the reason it gets choppy if I don't scale up the CPU.I also use this USB IR receiver: http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-USB-Remote-Control-Mouse/dp/B001M56DI0 with a Logitech Harmony 300 programmed to emulate it. It more or less just works like a keyboard, so I just had to remap a few keys to make it work. Instead of figuring out lirc, I just setup a fix controller script that I have on my home screen of Freevo that executes the following: #!/bin/bash xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 162 = u' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 153 = f' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 144 = r' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 176 = m' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 174 = n' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 160 = F3' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 164 = Escape' xset -display :0 -dpms xset -display :0 s off The last two turn off any screen savers since I was having the screen go out and not wake back up. It probably isn't the most elegant way to do it, but I just have a big Initialize menu option at the start of Freevo and just have to run it if there is a reboot. I tried putting it in as a startup script, but it seems to only work once Freevo is loaded, probably because it needs the display to be loaded and ready for the xmodmaps. Anyway, thanks for the input, glad you liked the HowTo. Preston -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
You did what instead of figuring out lirc? That seems harder than using lirc. Sure, I'll update the page after I play with it for a week. I installed unclutter and changed my script as such to fix the mouse showing up at inopportune times: /usr/bin/xrandr -s 640x480 /usr/bin/unclutter -visible -root -idle 1 -jitter 3 /usr/bin/huludesktop killall unclutter /usr/bin/xrandr -s 800x600 Strange that you had to mess with xset. On 08/11/2011 09:41 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent, thanks very much! If I may offer what I have found: 1. Setting screen to 640x480 and setting the quality to low (look for at the bottom of the screen) seemed to greatly smooth the picture quality on my old computer. Unable to make freevo work at 640x480 (/etc/freevo/freevo.conf - didn't make any difference, freevo was too big!!), I wrote a quick script to launch it as such: /usr/bin/xrandr -s 640x480 /usr/bin/huludesktop /usr/bin/xrandr -s 800x600 2. Finding the mythtv documentation, I got lirc working by adding the '-r' as follows: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hulu_Desktop_Integration#LIRC_Configuration Followed, of course, by a service lirc restart. Reading the output from irw, I changed my remote type and my button_name_menu in /home/freevo/.huludesktop lirc_remote_identifier = Hauppauge_350 button_name_menu = Go I have searched far and wide for documentation on how to add other buttons than the following six, but have found none. If anybody has any tips, please send along. button_name_up = Up button_name_down = Down button_name_left = Left button_name_right = Right button_name_select = OK button_name_menu = Go Thanks again - great wiki article. When I get a day off (eventually), I'll try to add a couple of my own. Those are some great ideas to add in. I'll let you add them since you are probably more familiar with them then I am. I run Freevo and Hulu at 1366x768, which is I'm sure the reason it gets choppy if I don't scale up the CPU.I also use this USB IR receiver: http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-USB-Remote-Control-Mouse/dp/B001M56DI0 with a Logitech Harmony 300 programmed to emulate it. It more or less just works like a keyboard, so I just had to remap a few keys to make it work. Instead of figuring out lirc, I just setup a fix controller script that I have on my home screen of Freevo that executes the following: #!/bin/bash xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 162 = u' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 153 = f' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 144 = r' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 176 = m' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 174 = n' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 160 = F3' xmodmap -display :0 -e 'keycode 164 = Escape' xset -display :0 -dpms xset -display :0 s off The last two turn off any screen savers since I was having the screen go out and not wake back up. It probably isn't the most elegant way to do it, but I just have a big Initialize menu option at the start of Freevo and just have to run it if there is a reboot. I tried putting it in as a startup script, but it seems to only work once Freevo is loaded, probably because it needs the display to be loaded and ready for the xmodmaps. Anyway, thanks for the input, glad you liked the HowTo. Preston -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think about. hulu would need a window manager. Evan I installed ratpoison (apt-get install ratpoison on ubuntu) and then added this to /etc/ratpoisonrc #start config msgwait 1 startup_message off defborder 0 set padding 0 0 0 0 set bgcolor black set bargravity southwest exec xset -dpms exec xset s off exec xsetroot -display :0 -solid #00 exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr #end config Basically, I turn off the start up message, make it fill the screen, set the background color black in case hulu desktop doesn't completely fill the screen for some reason and turn the screen saver off. Then, in my freevo local_conf.py I added the following: COMMAND_SPAWN_WM = '/usr/bin/ratpoison ' COMMAND_KILL_WM = 'killall ratpoison' With the spawnwm / in the FXD file, it will start ratpoison, set my config settings load hulu desktop. Then when I exit hulu desktop (from the hulu menu) it closes ratpoison and takes me back to freevo (the freevo screen saver comes back as well). I have also created similar FXD files that load the video pages of websites in Chrome. For example, my daughter likes Special Agent Oso on Disney Jr., so I have a FXD file like this: ?xml version=1.0 ? freevo command title=Playhouse Disney cmd/usr/bin/google-chrome --app=http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/special-agent-oso/special-agent-oso-videos-episodes/cmd nostdout / stoposd / spawnwm / info contentPlayhouse disney videos/content /info /command /freevo which loads the Agent Oso video page. It is a little bit of a pain to use my remote mouse (I have a Harmony 300 with one of the functions set as a Media Center remote with the number keys at the bottom emulating a mouse) to click the video to start, but once it does, I make it full screen and we can watch it. As one other note, as I mentioned before, Hulu seems to take a lot of processing power. For some reason, no matter what governor I picked, it seemed that my CPU wouldn't scale up to its max speed when Hulu was running, leading to jumpy playback. I created a simple script file with the following: cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 3.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 3.0GHz /usr/bin/huludesktop cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1.0GHz Called it starthulu, made it executable, and put it in /usr/bin. I then set my FXD to use this script instead. Basically, it sets each of the cores of my CPU to their max speed (3.0 GHZ), starts Hulu, and then turns them back down to their min speed when I exit from Hulu. You might not need that, but I thought I would share in case it might help. Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think about. hulu would need a window manager. Evan I installed ratpoison (apt-get install ratpoison on ubuntu) and then added this to /etc/ratpoisonrc #start config msgwait 1 startup_message off defborder 0 set padding 0 0 0 0 set bgcolor black set bargravity southwest exec xset -dpms exec xset s off exec xsetroot -display :0 -solid #00 exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr #end config Basically, I turn off the start up message, make it fill the screen, set the background color black in case hulu desktop doesn't completely fill the screen for some reason and turn the screen saver off. Then, in my freevo local_conf.py I added the following: COMMAND_SPAWN_WM = '/usr/bin/ratpoison ' COMMAND_KILL_WM = 'killall ratpoison' With the spawnwm / in the FXD file, it will start ratpoison, set my config settings load hulu desktop. Then when I exit hulu desktop (from the hulu menu) it closes ratpoison and takes me back to freevo (the freevo screen saver comes back as well). I have also created similar FXD files that load the video pages of websites in Chrome. For example, my daughter likes Special Agent Oso on Disney Jr., so I have a FXD file like this: ?xml version=1.0 ? freevo command title=Playhouse Disney cmd/usr/bin/google-chrome --app=http://disney.go.com/disneyjunior/special-agent-oso/special-agent-oso-videos-episodes/cmd nostdout / stoposd / spawnwm / info contentPlayhouse disney videos/content /info /command /freevo which loads the Agent Oso video page. It is a little bit of a pain to use my remote mouse (I have a Harmony 300 with one of the functions set as a Media Center remote with the number keys at the bottom emulating a mouse) to click the video to start, but once it does, I make it full screen and we can watch it. As one other note, as I mentioned before, Hulu seems to take a lot of processing power. For some reason, no matter what governor I picked, it seemed that my CPU wouldn't scale up to its max speed when Hulu was running, leading to jumpy playback. I created a simple script file with the following: cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 3.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 3.0GHz /usr/bin/huludesktop cpufreq-set -c 0 -f 1.0GHz cpufreq-set -c 1 -f 1.0GHz Called it starthulu, made it executable, and put it in /usr/bin. I then set my FXD to use this script instead. Basically, it sets each of the cores of my CPU to their max speed (3.0 GHZ), starts Hulu, and then turns them back down to their min speed when I exit from Hulu. You might not need that, but I thought I would share in case it might help. Preston This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan This is my first write up of a wiki page for Freevo, but hopefully it is okay: http://doc.freevo.org/HuluDesktop Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
Excellent, thanks very much! If I may offer what I have found: 1. Setting screen to 640x480 and setting the quality to low (look for at the bottom of the screen) seemed to greatly smooth the picture quality on my old computer. Unable to make freevo work at 640x480 (/etc/freevo/freevo.conf - didn't make any difference, freevo was too big!!), I wrote a quick script to launch it as such: /usr/bin/xrandr -s 640x480 /usr/bin/huludesktop /usr/bin/xrandr -s 800x600 2. Finding the mythtv documentation, I got lirc working by adding the '-r' as follows: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hulu_Desktop_Integration#LIRC_Configuration Followed, of course, by a service lirc restart. Reading the output from irw, I changed my remote type and my button_name_menu in /home/freevo/.huludesktop lirc_remote_identifier = Hauppauge_350 button_name_menu = Go I have searched far and wide for documentation on how to add other buttons than the following six, but have found none. If anybody has any tips, please send along. button_name_up = Up button_name_down = Down button_name_left = Left button_name_right = Right button_name_select = OK button_name_menu = Go Thanks again - great wiki article. When I get a day off (eventually), I'll try to add a couple of my own. On 08/10/2011 11:38 AM, Preston Hagar wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote: This is really nice. Think you could added it to the freevo Wiki? I am sure alot of other folks could use this in the future. Evan This is my first write up of a wiki page for Freevo, but hopefully it is okay: http://doc.freevo.org/HuluDesktop Preston -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Preston Hagar prest...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, after a tornado leveled my old place I have now got a new place
to stay, and am setting up a new freevo system. We are looking at
using hulu for TV shows instead of paying another 40+ a month for
something we only use a little of (like 3 channels). I know at one
point there was a way to use hulu on freevo and then it broke. Has
anyone got it back working again? This might be a nice feature for 2.x
also.
evan
I setup Hulu Desktop for Linux (I use ubuntu, so it was an easy dpkg install):
http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux
Then setup a simple command file I called hulu_desktop.fxd with the following:
?xml version=1.0 ?
freevo
command title=Hulu Desktop
cmd/usr/bin/huludesktop/cmd
nostdout /
stoposd /
spawnwm /
info
contentHulu Desktop/content
/info
/command
/freevo
I then added:
plugin.activate('command.CommandMainMenuItem',
args=('/etc/freevo/commands/hulu_desktop.fxd',),level=20)
to my local_conf.py
This puts on the home screen or whatever you want to call it a menu
option called Hulu Desktop. I can select it and then it loads Hulu
Desktop, which is a 10 foot interface for Hulu. I then can use my
remote to navigate, play videos, etc. I did find it takes a little
more processing power than just playing avi files or whatever in xine
or mplayer, so I had to upgrade my cpu to a Athlon 64 x2 6000+ and I
have a GeForce 210 video card, and it plays smooth.
I also had to setup ratposion for the desktop. If you need more info
about setting it up, feel free to post back. Overall though, you end
up with a really nice Hulu interface to all of Hulu, not just Hulu
Plus on your TV.
Preston
Using the FXD is lot simpler than the approach I was going to take. I
use freevo as the desktop on mine. May have to change ow that I think
about. hulu would need a window manager.
Evan
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Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Evan Hisey ehi...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, after a tornado leveled my old place I have now got a new place
to stay, and am setting up a new freevo system. We are looking at
using hulu for TV shows instead of paying another 40+ a month for
something we only use a little of (like 3 channels). I know at one
point there was a way to use hulu on freevo and then it broke. Has
anyone got it back working again? This might be a nice feature for 2.x
also.
evan
I setup Hulu Desktop for Linux (I use ubuntu, so it was an easy dpkg install):
http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux
Then setup a simple command file I called hulu_desktop.fxd with the following:
?xml version=1.0 ?
freevo
command title=Hulu Desktop
cmd/usr/bin/huludesktop/cmd
nostdout /
stoposd /
spawnwm /
info
contentHulu Desktop/content
/info
/command
/freevo
I then added:
plugin.activate('command.CommandMainMenuItem',
args=('/etc/freevo/commands/hulu_desktop.fxd',),level=20)
to my local_conf.py
This puts on the home screen or whatever you want to call it a menu
option called Hulu Desktop. I can select it and then it loads Hulu
Desktop, which is a 10 foot interface for Hulu. I then can use my
remote to navigate, play videos, etc. I did find it takes a little
more processing power than just playing avi files or whatever in xine
or mplayer, so I had to upgrade my cpu to a Athlon 64 x2 6000+ and I
have a GeForce 210 video card, and it plays smooth.
I also had to setup ratposion for the desktop. If you need more info
about setting it up, feel free to post back. Overall though, you end
up with a really nice Hulu interface to all of Hulu, not just Hulu
Plus on your TV.
Preston
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Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
Only via command line rtmpdump On 07/22/2011 08:31 AM, Evan Hisey wrote: Well, after a tornado leveled my old place I have now got a new place to stay, and am setting up a new freevo system. We are looking at using hulu for TV shows instead of paying another 40+ a month for something we only use a little of (like 3 channels). I know at one point there was a way to use hulu on freevo and then it broke. Has anyone got it back working again? This might be a nice feature for 2.x also. evan -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
That was what I remembered. I thin kI may have just found a new way though. Hulu now has linux desktop app that is LIRC driven. Pretty nice actually. I think I may be able to launch it as an external app via a plugin, then hand off lirc. Evan On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Dan Schmidt helpdesk...@gmail.com wrote: Only via command line rtmpdump On 07/22/2011 08:31 AM, Evan Hisey wrote: Well, after a tornado leveled my old place I have now got a new place to stay, and am setting up a new freevo system. We are looking at using hulu for TV shows instead of paying another 40+ a month for something we only use a little of (like 3 channels). I know at one point there was a way to use hulu on freevo and then it broke. Has anyone got it back working again? This might be a nice feature for 2.x also. evan -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Any one using hulu on freevo?
Well, after a tornado leveled my old place I have now got a new place to stay, and am setting up a new freevo system. We are looking at using hulu for TV shows instead of paying another 40+ a month for something we only use a little of (like 3 channels). I know at one point there was a way to use hulu on freevo and then it broke. Has anyone got it back working again? This might be a nice feature for 2.x also. evan -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
