Mailing List Archive: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox?

Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox?

Feb 4, 2010, 3:46 PM

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Hello all,
So I got some sound working today - the simple stuff with Intel
HDA. It seems to work OK. I can run mythfrontend and YouTube without
problems so I guess that much is working. For some reason the cards
aren't being recognized at boot time so I'm having to modprobe the
drivers by hand but at least it works.

The one thing that isn't working so far is Hulu from within
Firefox. No matter what video I try to stream is just gives me a
message that it cannot stream it. Is there some special trick? The
machine is amd64 stable through and through.

It seems to be using Flash 10 which is installed:

firefly ~ # emerge -pv adobe-flash

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.42.34 USE="32bit 64bit
(multilib)" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
firefly ~ #

Maybe Hulu's just having trouble right now? Or is there a trick?
It's been this way for an hour.

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox? [ In reply to ]

markknecht at gmail

Feb 4, 2010, 4:56 PM

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Seems that there are threads in the forums about this not working
recently. I'll check that out and get back unless someone posts a fix.

Cheers,
Mark

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Â So I got some sound working today - the simple stuff with Intel
> HDA. It seems to work OK. I can run mythfrontend and YouTube without
> problems so I guess that much is working. For some reason the cards
> aren't being recognized at boot time so I'm having to modprobe the
> drivers by hand but at least it works.
>
> Â The one thing that isn't working so far is Hulu from within
> Firefox. No matter what video I try to stream is just gives me a
> message that it cannot stream it. Is there some special trick? The
> machine is amd64 stable through and through.
>
> Â It seems to be using Flash 10 which is installed:
>
> firefly ~ # emerge -pv adobe-flash
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild Â R Â ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.42.34 Â USE="32bit 64bit
> (multilib)" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> firefly ~ #
>
> Â Maybe Hulu's just having trouble right now? Or is there a trick?
> It's been this way for an hour.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Re: Re: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox? [ In reply to ]

paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail

Feb 5, 2010, 8:59 AM

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems that there are threads in the forums about this not working
> recently. I'll check that out and get back unless someone posts a fix.

I haven't tried hulu in a long time (but it worked last time I tried).
There is also a hulu-desktop package you can try in portage, it is a
dedicated hulu player.

Re: Re: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox? [ In reply to ]

rsanders at sgi

Feb 5, 2010, 9:09 AM

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FWIW - Yes, I see it not working in Firefox. But Hulu works fine in
Opera and SeaMonkey-bin.

Bob
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Re: Re: Any tricks getting Hulu to work in Firefox? [ In reply to ]

markknecht at gmail

Feb 5, 2010, 10:44 AM

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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote:
> FWIW - Yes, I see it not working in Firefox. Â But Hulu works fine in
> Opera and SeaMonkey-bin.
>
> Bob
> --

Very interesting. OK - I'll give that a try.

I also found last evening that Hulu Desktop is working quite well so
that's fine for me also.