Hulu Plus 720p Plugin Request

ntoskrnl don't mistake me!
i'm waiting for your test results!

I did some testing and it seems that georestrictions are indeed the problem (though logging in doesn't affect them).

First some background info: Hulu streams are served by one of these three content delivery networks:
- Akamai
- Limelight
- Level3

Each video has several streams to choose between, typically one stream from each CDN for each quality. FRD doesn't attempt to download from Level3 streams at the moment (I disabled it due to the earlier issue).

Now I found out that Limelight stream servers reject any non-US IPs and drop the connection (causing the issue you're having). Akamai servers do not do this. FRD chooses the first best quality stream it encounters, and sometimes it is a Limelight stream and sometimes an Akamai.

You can solve this by using a SOCKS proxy so that the RTMP traffic can be tunneled through the proxy. I might be able to put some kind of a workaround in the plugin, but I have to sleep on that...

ntoskrnl Wrote:
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> I did some testing and it seems that
> georestrictions are indeed the problem (though
> logging in doesn't affect them).
>
> First some background info: Hulu streams are
> served by one of these three content delivery
> networks:
> - Akamai
> - Limelight
> - Level3
>
> Each video has several streams to choose between,
> typically one stream from each CDN for each
> quality. FRD doesn't attempt to download from
> Level3 streams at the moment (I disabled it due to
> the earlier issue).
>
> Now I found out that Limelight stream servers
> reject any non-US IPs and drop the connection
> (causing the issue you're having). Akamai servers
> do not do this. FRD chooses the first best quality
> stream it encounters, and sometimes it is a
> Limelight stream and sometimes an Akamai.
>
> You can solve this by using a SOCKS proxy so that
> the RTMP traffic can be tunneled through the
> proxy. I might be able to put some kind of a
> workaround in the plugin, but I have to sleep on
> that...

OK Take your time and fix that plugin to be used even much easily and error freely!

OK, plugin v1.1.8 prefers Akamai streams over other streams of the same quality. If the best quality stream is a Limelight, or if no Akamai streams are available, it still downloads a Limelight stream.

ntoskrnl Wrote:
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> OK, plugin v1.1.8 prefers Akamai streams over
> other streams of the same quality. If the best
> quality stream is a Limelight, or if no Akamai
> streams are available, it still downloads a
> Limelight stream.

Thanks i'll try it!

Superb Bro!
Everything is fixed now!
Thanks a lot for your work!