keiichidono
May 30th, 2009, 04:38 AM
Does Hulu work now? As far as I know it doesn't. A friend was telling me how it didn't work, here's the convo.
(11:25:29 PM) Calvin: Know anything about the sitch with Hulu and Boxee?
(11:26:05 PM) Chad: ah finally my listening to BOL comes in handy :p
(11:26:16 PM) Chad: they talked alot about boxee and hulu
(11:26:47 PM) Chad: as i know it, Hulu was able to be viewed through boxee until they blocked it...
(11:27:14 PM) Chad: Boxee then tried to access Hulu through RSS feeds, but Hulu changed that
(11:27:44 PM) Chad: Hulu said that their content providers wanted Hulu to be seen from a browser for metrics, advertising etc.
(11:28:15 PM) Chad: (we now know that that's partially untrue due to Hulu Labs releasing a beta of their "Hulu Desktop" app)
(11:28:44 PM) Chad: Now Boxee has attempted to get access to hulu by using an integrated browser
(11:28:51 PM) Chad: but i think that too has been blocked
(11:28:58 PM) Calvin: WHAT THE **** MAN.
(11:29:05 PM) Calvin: HULU IS ******* ME OFF.
(11:29:22 PM) Calvin: I feel like ******* DOSing their site.
(11:29:33 PM) Calvin: Or boolean bombing it
(11:29:37 PM) Calvin: Or some ****.
(11:30:24 PM) Calvin: Can they reverse engineer Hulu's own desktop app to get it to work?
(11:30:31 PM) Calvin: That should work.
(11:31:27 PM) Chad: keep in mind that Hulu themselves doesn't care, they'd love to let Boxee use it, just that their content providers (ABC, NBC, FOX, etc.) don't want them too. Hulu's stuck between a rock in a hard place because two of those same content providers (NBC and FOX) own them
(11:31:36 PM) Chad: I'm not sure about that
(11:31:50 PM) Chad: people have integrated it into Apple's Front Row software
(11:31:56 PM) Calvin: Oh, then my hatred in misplaced.
(11:32:02 PM) Calvin: What do you mean?
(11:32:09 PM) Calvin: (I'm no mac fan)
(11:32:23 PM) Calvin: So I say DOS FOX and NBC!!
That command doesn't work on this protocol.
(11:35:18 PM) Chad: sorry, i was doing additional research
(11:35:28 PM) Chad: the app is apparently built in flash
(11:35:39 PM) Calvin: Reverse engineer the flash.
(11:35:54 PM) Calvin: Should be easy enough to turn it into .flv and edit it.
(11:36:55 PM) Chad: http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/05/28/is-hulu-coming-back-to-boxee/
(11:37:15 PM) Calvin: Yeah, saw that blog post but didn't get anything from it.
(11:25:29 PM) Calvin: Know anything about the sitch with Hulu and Boxee?
(11:26:05 PM) Chad: ah finally my listening to BOL comes in handy :p
(11:26:16 PM) Chad: they talked alot about boxee and hulu
(11:26:47 PM) Chad: as i know it, Hulu was able to be viewed through boxee until they blocked it...
(11:27:14 PM) Chad: Boxee then tried to access Hulu through RSS feeds, but Hulu changed that
(11:27:44 PM) Chad: Hulu said that their content providers wanted Hulu to be seen from a browser for metrics, advertising etc.
(11:28:15 PM) Chad: (we now know that that's partially untrue due to Hulu Labs releasing a beta of their "Hulu Desktop" app)
(11:28:44 PM) Chad: Now Boxee has attempted to get access to hulu by using an integrated browser
(11:28:51 PM) Chad: but i think that too has been blocked
(11:28:58 PM) Calvin: WHAT THE **** MAN.
(11:29:05 PM) Calvin: HULU IS ******* ME OFF.
(11:29:22 PM) Calvin: I feel like ******* DOSing their site.
(11:29:33 PM) Calvin: Or boolean bombing it
(11:29:37 PM) Calvin: Or some ****.
(11:30:24 PM) Calvin: Can they reverse engineer Hulu's own desktop app to get it to work?
(11:30:31 PM) Calvin: That should work.
(11:31:27 PM) Chad: keep in mind that Hulu themselves doesn't care, they'd love to let Boxee use it, just that their content providers (ABC, NBC, FOX, etc.) don't want them too. Hulu's stuck between a rock in a hard place because two of those same content providers (NBC and FOX) own them
(11:31:36 PM) Chad: I'm not sure about that
(11:31:50 PM) Chad: people have integrated it into Apple's Front Row software
(11:31:56 PM) Calvin: Oh, then my hatred in misplaced.
(11:32:02 PM) Calvin: What do you mean?
(11:32:09 PM) Calvin: (I'm no mac fan)
(11:32:23 PM) Calvin: So I say DOS FOX and NBC!!
That command doesn't work on this protocol.
(11:35:18 PM) Chad: sorry, i was doing additional research
(11:35:28 PM) Chad: the app is apparently built in flash
(11:35:39 PM) Calvin: Reverse engineer the flash.
(11:35:54 PM) Calvin: Should be easy enough to turn it into .flv and edit it.
(11:36:55 PM) Chad: http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/05/28/is-hulu-coming-back-to-boxee/
(11:37:15 PM) Calvin: Yeah, saw that blog post but didn't get anything from it.