480p Hulu coming to Boxee Beta?

[alexthehack]

So Hulu made a few changes to their site today, including allowing you to set your bitrate on the fly and even auto-sense the best bitrate for your connection. Just curious if this will have any impact on Boxee Beta.

I would REALLY like to be able to log in to my Hulu account through Boxee and set it to always play the 480p stream, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that yet (and the Firefox-cookie-file-swap trick used to access mature content doesn't seem to have any effect on bitrate either).

Please, developers: give me 480p Hulu access so I can finally ditch the Hulu Desktop app and do all my watching through Boxee!

[unisonband]

YES!!! Agreed...although Hulu is a pain in the arse and doesn't want Hulu to run on the television...we're hoping a premium account will take care of this once they give that option

[judgeschambers]

In the boxee alpha days when you could log into your own hulu account, whatever you had your hulu account set for is what you would get (480P).

Using hulu in boxee beta is now a non-user account, so it should follow the auto-adjust function they now offer. Meaning, if your bandwidth supports 480p, you would get 480P. Emphasis on "should."

This up front feature is not new in Hulu. You've always been able to set 380p-480p quality in your profile. The auto adjust is the new part in hulu.

I'll have to check with Marcel to make sure, and see what the exact details are.

[leeep]

Using hulu in boxee is a non-user account, so it should follow the auto-adjust function they now offer. Meaning, if your bandwidth supports 480p, you would get 480P.

In the boxee alpha days when you could log into your own hulu account, whatever you had your hulu account set for is what you would get (480P).

actually, even "logging in" to hulu currently via a shared/linked cookies file does not apply the user-selected account option at hulu.com to force 480p feeds. boxee will only parse and playback the 360p stream.

i'd expect once the new hulu player and such settles into the mainstream, the next build of boxee will provide this feature! we'll be waiting!

[jmk_428]

Since they made the change hulu using Flash 10.0 is no longer fixing the horrible flash performance in boxee. Grrr.

[judgeschambers]

Since they made the change hulu using Flash 10.0 is no longer fixing the horrible flash performance in boxee. Grrr.

Well, that is not really the topic of this thread. But since your signature is promoting a version of flash that defeats the purpose of GPU acceleration..... I will digress.

Hulu has been using flash 10 for a long time now and Flash 10.1 beta and RC-2 works perfect for me and most other users in boxee with adequate hardware to leverage its abilities.

Most users with poor flash playback is usually due to insufficient hardware to leverage the acceleration. It gets further complicated when users use low power CPU machines AND add boxee AND flash to the mix. It's just too much for the CPU to manage even with acceleration (single core 230 atom/ion machines or legacy machines). The CPU still has to run the player, the stream and the flash itself. Then run Boxee too. The GPU then handles the decoding of the video. Same for the ATV guys. Can't blame boxee for using hardware that is not adequate for the job.

The Atom/Ion dual core 330 units have juuuust enough CPU power to play flash in boxee with a good Flash release (1p 3p and RC-1). And if flash puts out a crappy release (2p & RC-4)....... it causes the cpu to jump from the usual 30% to more than 60%+ and even they lag the video in boxee.

I've set up many a dual and quad core machines with Nvidia cards (and Revo 3610s) and Boxee plays flash 10.1 video FLAWLESSLY. It all comes down to having enough CPU to do all the work that needs done outside of the GPU acceleration.

I still feel you have some configuration snafu on your PC (revo 1600??) that is causing the jittery performance. Using the non-RC flash completely disables your machines' GPU acceleration as well. You need to sort it out and get to the root of the problem in order to try and get Flash 10.1 to work better.

I would not mind further trouble shooting your PC in the proper thread.

[judgeschambers]

actually, even "logging in" to hulu currently via a shared/linked cookies file does not apply the user-selected account option at hulu.com to force 480p feeds. boxee will only parse and playback the 360p stream.

i'd expect once the new hulu player and such settles into the mainstream, the next build of boxee will provide this feature! we'll be waiting!

Well, then this has been the case since Beta came out in December and no one mentioned it until now. Hulu's announcements of specific stream qualities just brought it to the forefront.

As you stated, I'm sure that as boxee continues its development additional resolution stream support will be implemented.