<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kevin Kuphal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kkuphal@gmail.com">kkuphal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://www.hulu.com/labs" target="_blank">http://www.hulu.com/labs</a><br><br>Might be of interest to some people here<br></blockquote></div><br><br>I installed this on my combo backend/frontend box here in my office and am surprised to say it works relatively well.<br>
<br>My Myth box is Slackware-based, so I used the RPM and ran rpm2tgz on it, then installpkg... It installed with no issue on Slackware, so that was a promising first start. It was unable to locate my Flash plugin, but that was an easy fix just had to put the location into the config file.<br>
<br>Remote didnt work out of the box, had to do some editing of config files and start lircd with the --r option... but that mostly works now. The arrows/menu button work at least, tho right now my pause/volume buttons are not doing anything at all. Not sure if they are supposed to be or not, still need to dig into that some.<br>
<br>Interesting oddity... After a fresh reboot, if I immediately launch Hulu, I get no audio. Subsequent re-launches also have no audio. It's only after I play something in Myth that Hulu then has audio. Not sure what that's all about. Maybe on reboot my volume is muted, and Myth is activating it? I dunno, still have to dig into this issue as well.<br>
<br>Playback looks pretty good... slightly "choppy" at times, and there is definite tearing happening with horizontal panning -- but I expected as much, I mean, its Flash on Linux afterall :) *cough* ;) My TV 720p, and content does look pretty good though. Menus are a bit slow to render/react when there is video playing. AMD X2 5600+. But definitely usable!<br>
<br>I added a menu option to launch this from my Media menu... works great. Only issue is, when it launches I get a cursor in the middle of the screen that never goes away. Can't figure out how to fix that, yet... Also, my screen is blanking after a while. I have DPMS turned off, and no screensaver running... so not sure why that's happening. I'm sure its something simple I've overlooked.<br>
<br>Overall, this is promising. Very... very... VERY promising :)<br>Just my .02... ;)<br>--Eric<br>