Getting VLC to play HULU

[degarb]

I am wondering how to get hulu playing in vlc.

Best I can recon from that google doohicky is you need to install the firefox plugin at vlc install. Then some vague instruction, that I can't make out to enable this in Firefox for video. This step, I am lost, since I don't use FF anyway.

I use Opera, can I enable the plugin to work in Opera?

Or can I just cut and paste a hulu url to watch in VLC? This method is preferred, since I can set default priority to VLC to realtime, more practically than I can Opera. People with dual cores have issue with choppy video with flash in full screen. While VLC has done all types of full screen video without jerkiness since 08, on single core 500 mhz machines.

[degarb]

I installed the plugin, nightly build and 1.1. It appears as if both FF and Opera are still using adobe flash for at least hulu.com. Maybe, I am mistaken.

Looks, however, like Opera is properly setup to use the vlc plugin. Perhaps, they override the Opera preferences via a javascript.

Since, I do know ahk, this simple language can urldownload to file and parse. I wonder if there is a theoretical way to find a js script from the html, parse, and locate real hulu url for video, so vlc could play it. How long would it take to learn lua? It takes about 20 minutes for a beginner to read ahk chm and start coding.

[VLC_help]

VLC doesn't replace Flash plugin. So you need LUA parser or direct URLs. LUA is quite easy since basically you only have to find the URL from the page and maybe parse it a bit. You can checkout e.g. the Youtube.lua and see how it works.

But I would guess with Hulu it isn't very easy since there would most likely be a LUA script for it, if it was easy/trivial, but I could be wrong.

[bluebird88]

if you can get it to work, please let us know! Thanks