How to Watch Hulu.com in the UK

this is a non-free advertising driven windows/mac application. it is neither free software nor is there even a linux version. why does this get posted as linux news?

greetings, eMBee.

It looks more like spam

mbaehrllxer,... are you talking about hulu or the app this person was using to fool hulu into working outside the US???

Hulu has a Linux version (probably based on Wine by the performance of it, rather than a TRUE native app, but a Linux version nontheless). They provide both 32 & 64 bit versions for *.rpm & *.deb based distributions (Officially, they support Ubuntu and I can't remember if the *.rpm version is Red Hat, Fedora, or SuSE). I use it on a regular basis on my multi-media network (I live inthe US). You might not like its commericial nature, but it is the only way to see some particular episodic television series ("V," Lost, Stargate Universe, Family Guy, etc) if you have a scheduling conflict and do not have a working DVR. Plus, my wife uses it for catching up on her soaps when running the kids around forcces her to miss it,... which I love for its WAF (wife acceptance factor). Whenever the Mrs sees a benefit to my Linux-only, smart household madness, it helps justify me spending so much time on the project.

This guy's solution in fooling hulu was definitely a non-Linux app, but maybe whoever posted this did it because there IS a version of hulu for Linux.

There's a Hulu application? I've always watched it in the browser.

Absolutely,... when you visit their site, go to "hulu labs," or something like that. The application's performance is much better than the performance through the browser. But at high resolutions, you might still get frame rate skipping, even with a decent broadband connection.

I have been a regular watcher of Hulu since 2008 (cant afford satellite and to rural for cable) so all our TV is from the net, the ads are not to bad.

My family also watch a lot of UK TV im an expat based in USA and I have an article up here about how to access UK tv from abroad here http://www.caledoniacomputers.com/?p=1880

In the interests of full disclosure, I am the maintainer of SelekTOR.

I tried out the Hulu standalone player. Unbelievable. It looks incredible fullscreen on my 22-inch widescreen.

I was playing with huludesktop over this weekend for a short period. The display and interface is nice, it feel laggy though. I'll stick with the web interface for now.

jaseP: sorry for not being clear, i was talking about the app being used to access hulu. i didn't consider hulu itself to be the news, as there are other more direct articles about that.

greetings, eMBee.

I’m also in the UK and have an account with blockless.com giving me a whole host of features based around their proxy services.

This works fine for me on Hulu..



:)

I've recently tried to make this thing run under Wine.

However, it needs some 'low level' resources to the network stack that Wine doesn't have. There's some good article about it how to 'fix' Wine to make this works, which would take quite an effort.

Have you tried Tor or UltraVPN also? http://ultravpn.fr/forum/index.php?topic=204.0

Tor is often too slow to support video feed of any kind.

The streaming video feed doesnt pass through the TOR network only certain page accesses that bypass the geo-location filters do.

I access HD BBC extremely reliably through TOR, but it does have to be setup correctly to do this and Foxyproxy is a big part of getting this to work also SelekTOR maintains a stable link to the Tor exit node with the smallest latency in order to keep the time it takes for the initial page accesses to a minimum and also keep the latency below 4000ms as most sites will timeout if the exit node latency is greater than this.

Please note this only applys to video streams the video download on the BBC website requires that you use a proper paid proxy in the UK.

On average it takes about 30 secs to access a BBC Iplayer stream on an exit node with a latency of about 900ms.

Ive done a lot of work on this in order to provide my family with as much free high quality TV as they can handle here in the USA.