[mythtv-users] Free Linux alternative to PlayOn?

[greg]

David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> I'll let you know how this goes, but I just got a Wii for our house 
> and I'm planning on trying out PlayOn in a Windows virtual machine. 
> They have the 14 day trial so I'm willing to give it a shot. 
>
> I've been looking for a good opensource package that will work with 
> Hulu, but Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv) has never been able to play Hulu 
> consistently good for me (audio problems, lockups, etc), plus they 
> seem to only support the most recent Ubuntu release which is terrible 
> for someone who never upgrades.
>
> I'm willing to pay $20 to PlayOn if it keeps me from wasting 40 hours 
> trying to get a "free" package to work and never succeeding. Yeah the 
> whole windows thing sucks, but if I can get it going in a VM at least 
> I don't have any additional hardware costs. 
>
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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org 
> <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
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>     On Friday 18 September 2009 04:17:07 William wrote:
>     > Hey listlanders,
>     >
>     > I just read a thread about PlayOn which appears to be a commercial
>     > product ($). Is there a free linux alternative that I can
>     integrate with
>     > Mythtv? Website?
>
>     I'm not aware of any free (open source) product that does
>     everything PLayON
>     can do, but there is MediaTomb, XBMC, Boxee and a few others that
>     implement
>     some of PlayOn's capability.
>
>     I doubt you are ever going to find a totally open source product
>     that can
>     implement the Netflix Watch Instantly or Amazon VOD protocols, but
>     things
>     like Hulu should be doable.
>
>     PLayOn costs $40, though it's often discounted. I'm bothered more
>     by the fact
>     that it's Windows only (making the true cost higher by the price
>     of an XP
>     license), than by the fact that it's commercial.
>
>     It all depends on what it is you want to accomplish.
>
>
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>     Brian Wood
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Why not just use myth browser to obtain Hulu??? It works well for me...