Hi, I haven't recieved any feedback from Paul Yanez since sending him an email requesting some input on how he managed to intergrate his Hulu Media Player into Media Center.

Has anyone made any breakthough on a plugin?

I'll be happy to test a beta plugin.

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Last night, I created a hosted HTML app that basically just embeds, via <iframe>,  Paul Yanez's page in Vista Media Center.  Here's what I found out.

1. Paul Yanez's movie player is hard coded to run at 1024x768 resolution.  So when I try to run it on my HTPC running at 1920x1080p, I get his page on the upper left corner of the TV.  The rest of the frame is white.  So it's not really watchable. 
2. When I launch the hosted HTML app, his page doesn't have input focus, so I can't use the remote control to move around the screen.  However, if I use my mouse and click somewhere inside his frame, his player gets the focus and then I can navigate his page using the remote. 
3. I play either a movie or a tv episode.  When it ends, I couldn't find a way to get back to the main screen.
4. Paul Yanez's movie player looks like an AppleTV app.  It works pretty well.  It looks different from VMC though.
   

Below are some screen shots.



If Paul Yanez changes his code so that it is not hard coded and it could fill up the whole screen, then we can make this Hulu Plugin work.  Of course it would be nicer if the plugin is written in MCML.

-Josef

I looked at his code and created my own HTML file so I at least got it too look a little bit better.

However, I still must use his SWF file. I got it at a higher resolution, but it seems the hulu video will still not get any larger, I'm trying to figure out how to get a full screen button working.

But, Acording to Paul's website http://www.paulyanez.com/labs/framework/ His video player framwork is already capible of working in Media Center.

 

 

 

Well I found that you can easily embed the video player in an HTML page.
All the videos are indexed by an incrementing number.

For Example to embed Hulu Video #2 just use the code below on any webpage.

It seems like you are already quite a ways on getting hulu integrated into media center.

In any case, for anyone else interested, the way I am using it currently is to launch veoh tv from vmc's program list. veoh apparently carries all the hulu does. so once after getting into the veoh interface, searching for content includes hulu content - without breaking the 10ft interface experience (since veoh has done a good job ith the 10ft interface with their veoh tv app).

kmd, how do I get the veoh app in media centers program list

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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
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40 inch Zenith DVI
Vista System Rating 4.5

hoopsdavis:

kmd, how do I get the veoh app in media centers program list

Here is what I did:

1. Create a file with the following contents named veoh.xml in a folder somewhere, eg "My Documents\My VMC plugins".

<application title="Veoh TV" id="{ABCE8379-F381-47b8-AE3D-EF6ADE750500}"
 companyname="Veoh TV"
 companylogourl="http://p-appserver.veoh.com/static/images/logo_3d_dark_320x240.jpg"
 description="Veoh TV">
 <entrypoint id="{ABCE8379-F381-47b8-AE3D-EF6ADE750501}"
  RUN="C:\Program Files\Veoh Networks\Veoh\VeohClient.exe"
  title="Veoh TV" description="Veoh TV"
  ImageUrl="http://p-appserver.veoh.com/static/images/logo_3d_dark_320x240.jpg">
  <category category="Services\Movies"/>
 </entrypoint>
</application>

2. Run the following cmd from the same folder where you created the above file.

%systemroot%\ehome\registermceapp.exe /alluser veoh.xml

Thanks KMD. I got veoh to start from my MCE but looks like very few of its features can actually be used via the MCE remote control. Has anybody gotten that to work smoothly? Are there any hacks to get it working?

ashukg:

Thanks KMD. I got veoh to start from my MCE but looks like very few of its features can actually be used via the MCE remote control. Has anybody gotten that to work smoothly? Are there any hacks to get it working?

yes, it hasnt been a major issue for me since i use a keyboard anyway. i would think that if veoh had the right keyboard shortcuts then it should be possible to use something like HID or girder to map remote input to keyboard shortcuts. havent gotten around to investigating it myself.

Has anyone had any progress on getting a hulu plugin to work?

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GForce 8500 GT 512Mb
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
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40 inch Zenith DVI
Vista System Rating 4.5

I have been dreaming of this, hopefully someone figures out a way to get it working :)

Pretty Please...

Has anyone heard any news or rumors about a Hulu plugin.

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Pentium 4 Processor 3.06GHz
2 GB RAM
GForce 8500 GT 512Mb
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
40 inch Zenith DVI
Vista System Rating 4.5

Take a look at these links about Hulu Media Player

 

http://www.paulyanez.com/labs/framework/

http://www.paulyanez.com/labs/hulu/

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Pentium 4 Processor 3.06GHz
2 GB RAM
GForce 8500 GT 512Mb
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
40 inch Zenith DVI
Vista System Rating 4.5

I couldn't help but notice that Hulu has a job listing, looking for someone with experience developing APIs.  Hopefully, those APIs are for public 'consumption'.