Hulu.com plugin

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:54:33 +0000

They probably changed the encryption keys, but because I read that they switched to RTMP type 9 (which hasn't been reversed yet), I'm not even attempting to fix the plugin until type 9 is reversed.

I can't do it myself either as I'm very crap at debugging native code, I just don't get any of it.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

capcap — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:39:03 +0000

Can confirm doesn't work

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:42:29 +0000

Unfortunately I can't test it as I'm not in the US.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:21:47 +0000

ntoskrnl, It's not writting anything in app.log. This is a URL that won't work:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/225298/no-ordinary-family-no-ordinary-animal

Does it work for you or anyone else?

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:42:56 +0000

Possibly. Can you attach your app.log file after such an error?

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:22:55 +0000

Trying to download latest No Ordinary Family and get "Error - Cannot download from service" with latest version and plugins up to date. What's going on. Did something change at Hulu?

Re: Hulu.com plugin

Preferred User — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:18:32 +0000

I dont know what happened today , but the Downloads for Hulu are accessable again.
Yesterday, I could not download anything from them.
Did you update the plugin or do you think it was just a glich at Hulu?

Thanks!

Re: Hulu.com plugin

Preferred User — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:55:15 +0000

the Hulu Plugin is not working I get the error code (Error - Cannot download from service)
•your FRD version,
0.85u1
•your plugin version
1.0.8 hulu.com
•describe problematic behaviour,
(Error - Cannot download from service)
•provide download links you have problem with
Stargate SG-1 any episode

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:37:29 +0000

Sorry, I forgot that FRD doesn't display library plugins in the plugin list. If checking for updates doesn't bring up anything (and you're using the latest version of FRD), then you should have the latest version.

We send the usual Firefox user agent for HTTP requests, but the RTMP protocol (used for downloading the video) doesn't have user agents.

And no, I don't think any users have been prosecuted for downloading from Hulu. It's the programs they're after, if anything.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:26:53 +0000

I looked for RTMP in the list of plugins in the preferences and didn't find it in the list. I initiated an update of all plugins and there was no update for that plugin. I then tried a different show, one that had more compression and it downloaded substantially faster than real time. But I am still curious, how do I find the version of the RTMP plugin as it wasn't in the list with the other plugins? Or is it in the list under some non-obvious name?

What user agent gets sent to Hulu?

Anyone (probably has to be in USA or proxied to the USA) can create a free (for 1 week) Hulu Plus account as a trial. Hulu Plus adds additional episodes of some shows over basic Hulu and supposedly offers better resolution on some shows.

About my last question, I was asking if there are known incidents of individual end users getting nailed for using a tool such as Free Rapid or StreamTransport to download for personal use what are normally only streaming videos? (I am in the USA)

Thanks.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:31:17 +0000

1) Normally RTMP servers send the stream in real-time, but I implemented a workaround in the latest version of the RTMP plugin. Make sure you are using RTMP plugin v2.1.1. At least for me it downloads quite fast.

2) Currently, the Hulu plugin just chooses the highest quality available. We could possibly implement a similar settings box as in the YouTube plugin, but that's a lot of work.

3) Nope. I don't have a Hulu Plus account (for obvious reasons), but if you send me login details and I find time, I might take a look at it. What exactly does such an account improve?

4) Actually, yes. Several. Many RTMPE ("encrypted" version of RTMP) supporting programs have got takedown letters. Luckily it's not a big concern for FRD, as DMCA is a US law, and as you might know, the Czech Republic or Finland (where FRD is developed) are not situated in the US.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:33:15 +0000

The Hulu plugin is working again for free Hulu shows (tested one show). Thanks. I have a few questions about it though

1) It seems to download the shows in real time. Is it fooling Hulu into thinking it is a web browser just watching the show? What user agent does it send to Hulu? Would Hulu be able to tell that a downloading tool is being used? (There is another tool for Windows, StreamTransport which sends an Internet Explorer user agent, and I think it is fooling Hulu.)

2) During normal playback, many Hulu shows let you change the resolution. How can we select which stream gets downloaded?

3) Is it possible to use the plugin with Hulu Plus? What do you do about the login?

(StreamTransport has its own built-in browser that may be used to login (if Hulu Plus content) navigate to the show, start playback, and then select resolution.)

4) I consider the downloading of Hulu content for personal home use to be much like using a VCR for all ethical purposes. Have there been any known instances of anyone falling victim to RIAA style scorched earth legal attacks (letters demanding multithousand dollar settlements on threat of even bigger lawsuits) over downloading Hulu?

Thanks

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:57:47 +0000

Please try plugin v1.0.8, it should work again.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:32:13 +0000

They changed something on their site; it's quite common, not necessarily due to our plugin.

Fixing may or may not take long. Tough to say as there are less than a handful of plugin developers, and we haven't yet had the time to check what the issue might be. Not to mention the fact that none of us are from the US so we have to fiddle around with proxies.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:42:25 +0000

ntoskrnl Wrote:
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> The plugin is probably broken. Please wait until
> we fix it.

Was this because Hulu "pulled the rug out" from under the plugin (changed something on their end)? Or was the plugin never fully working to begin with?

Will it be a simple and quick fix, or will it take a long time to correct?

Thanks in advance

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:01:30 +0000

The plugin is probably broken. Please wait until we fix it.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

stlmac08 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:18:14 +0000

How do you get this plugin to work? I have the latest version of FreeRapid and have updated my plugins at launch today. When I submit a Hulu URL for a show page, I get the error below and the console also spews out HTML for a Hulu web page. How do I determine the appropriate URL to submit to download an episode of a show? I tried the full URL of the show page including the material after #, then shortened to remove the '#', and finally shortening to just the show number after "/watch/". None of these work.

cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.exceptions.PluginImplementationException: No string between '"content_id", "' and '"' was found - attempt 1
	at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.webclient.utils.PlugUtils.getStringBetween(Unknown Source)
	at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.webclient.utils.PlugUtils.getStringBetween(Unknown Source)
	at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.services.hulu.HuluFileRunner.run(Unknown Source)
	at cz.vity.freerapid.plugins.webclient.AbstractFileShareService.run(Unknown Source)
	at cz.vity.freerapid.core.tasks.DownloadTask.doInBackground(Unknown Source)
	at cz.vity.freerapid.core.tasks.DownloadTask.doInBackground(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(SwingWorker.java:278)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	at javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(SwingWorker.java:317)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

Re: Hulu.com plugin

Vity — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:29:20 +0000

I created an issue for it
[bugtracker.wordrider.net]

Re: Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:24:32 +0000

It's an issue with RTMP. More specifically, we haven't taken into consideration the fact that the exact file size is not known when downloading an RTMP stream.

On other news; I just released a handful of new RTMP plugins for well-known sites: ArdMediathek.de, BBC.co.uk, CBS.com, NBC.com, RTE.ie. Please test them thoroughly and report any issues! I may not have been able to fully test them due to regional restrictions.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

vbzJuL5C — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:14:44 +0000

To test, I went and grabbed a link off their home page. I got an error.

ERROR - RTMP error - IOException: An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file

Here's the link I grabbed: [www.hulu.com]

It says it will only be active for another two days, so hopefully you guys catch it before the link expires.

edit--
it turns out that was happening for all files. i disabled pre-allocation of files (a setting i normally keep enabled). that seems to have gotten it to work. but i haven't checked to see if this is exclusive to hulu or if it's a problem with the new alpha version in general.

Re: Hulu.com plugin

Vity — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:19:17 +0000

...and FreeRapid Downloader is the only one downloader capable of doing it!

Hulu.com plugin

ntoskrnl — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:02:27 +0000

Yesterday I released a new plugin for the well-known US video site Hulu. [en.wikipedia.org] This was made possible by the new features in FreeRapid 0.85 concerning the protocol RTMP.

The plugin is utterly complex due to client-side obfuscation and encryption, but as usual, client-side restrictions are simply flawed, and while it did take a month to make the plugin, it works now!

So, grab 0.85alpha and rip your favorite TV shows off that site! [wordrider.net]