Last May, Hulu launched a new project as part of its alien plot to rot our brains with premium content. Dubbed Hulu Labs, the site now offers experimental new features that users can play around with before they’re ready for prime-time. At launch these included thing like time-based browsing and recommendations, and today, Hulu is launching two new additions to Labs: Publisher Tools and a Linux version of Hulu Desktop.
At launch Labs’ most exciting (and surprising) new feature was Hulu Desktop — a downloadable native client available for both Mac and Windows that sports a new interface that allows users to sit back from their screens and navigate the site using either their Mac or Windows Media remotes. And today, it’s launching support for Linux. To be perfectly honest I did a double take when I heard the news — plenty of software never makes it to Linux at all, much less a few months after making its PC/Mac debut. But Hulu says that a Linux version was among users’ top requests, so they built it.
The second new feature to launch today is Publisher Tools, which is designed to help bloggers and site owners quickly find content on Hulu that they can embed on their own sites. Upon launching Publisher Tools Hulu will intitially present you with a list of popular video clips, which is what most people are after. There’s also a search feature that lets you search Hulu for content hosted both on the site and the 100+ third party sites that Hulu indexes for premium content (these include MTV, TMZ, and funnyordie). To use the new tool you simply check off which videos you’d like to embed in your site, and Hulu will generate a custom playlist including each clip that you selected.
Where’s Canada!>!?????
Just north of the US – http://bit.ly/bN8Ut
tried the player on linux and it works .. its essentially an executable that loads flash player and the player runs the hulu environment .. it works great
cant log in to my hulu account though .,
Works well for me on Ubuntu 9.04. First time to use Hulu Desktop. Navigation was less that intuitive, but it’s a better experience on the HD than MPlayer.
I’d love to know if Hulu or Apple is ever going to fix the problem with the Front Row remote and Snow Leopard! . . . My iMac used to be the perfect media center (for my purposes) until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. . . . Total pain.
Hulu’s website used to say that it was a known problem and they were working on a solution. Now, it just says “The Apple Remote control is not fully compatible with Desktop on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). ”
Balls.
Apple has posted a solution for this problem at http://www.appl...otecontrol/fix/, where it states, “The fix is simple. Just upgrade your experience by purchasing the latest MS Windows operating system. We surrender, Balmer is the new Jobs.”
Would love to see this as a proper plug in for Windows Media Center (or, like Netflix, as an Xbox app) … one step closer to dumping Cable TV
This is great. I recently moved a Linux based PC into the den just to watch HULU on the television. I have been stuck just watching in the plain on browser mode. Now – if HULU can just get advertisements that match my interests — they will get 5 stars. But — I’m a dude — and watching the same nail polish commercial 5 times does’t work for me. But I love the fact that the commercials are short & sweet.
Let me know when us Canucks can actually begin to care about anything Hulu does.
On the other hand, kudos to Hulu for realizing that Linux is a real OS.
Sorry, but Linux is hardly a real operating system, and we would never recognize it as such. The actions taken by developing the Linux client were simply to placate the slow learners in society. But don’t worry, it won’t be long before you too realize that Linux, even though free, is a complete waste of money.
Actually Ubuntu has matured to the point roughly equal to WinXP at this point. I can do anything on it that I need to do on XP. But this I have a brain. Clearly fromyour comment you do not.
If Hulu Desktop works on Linux, would it be at all difficult for someone to create a set-top box? Seems like it would be real simple.