Hulu stopped working

B-Con · 2010-01-11 04:52:32

I maintain nearly identical Arch installs on my desktop and laptop. Without warning, I no longer can access Hulu videos from either. When I try to, I get a "Cannot display this video, please check your Internet connection" error. I can still access Hulu from all Windows machines, so it's definitely not a network issue.

A Google and forum search has not turned up anything that looks related to my problem. I haven't accessed Hulu in about a week, and in that time period I upgraded Firefox 3.5.5->3.5.6, the kernel 2.6.31->2.6.32, and a few other core updates. (I haven't, however, added any FX extensions.) I can't help but think that the problem would be related to one of the updates, but I have no idea what it would be. If it were Firefox, I would expect outcries from many others. If it were anything Arch-related, I assume others would complain. But aside from update packages, I can't think of anything that's changed.

Again, I had no Hulu issues at all, and all of a sudden I can no longer view any videos. Anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong? Has anyone else been unable to access videos recently?

Last edited by B-Con (2010-01-11 04:59:30)

doorknob60 · 2010-01-11 06:23:41

Try Hulu desktop:
yaourt -S huludesktop or http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31063

And see if it works from there.

orphius1970 · 2010-01-11 08:31:52

I am having the same trouble. I have tried huludesktop. I tried mozplugger, gecko-mediaplayer and vlc-plugin,
still no joy.

reed9 · 2010-01-11 15:23:20

Same issue here. Huludesktop does stream video, but crashes every few minutes. Happens across browsers, including Firefox 3.6rc1, Midori, and Chromium svn from AUR.

JuseBox · 2010-01-11 15:50:13

I am having the same issue with huludesktop. Never tried the browser but I will tonight. Ill also check with a windows box too.

szym · 2010-01-11 19:17:26

I am having the same experience as B-Con. Everything was working fine. Then it suddently completely stopped working with "Sorry we are unable to stream this video. Please check your Internet connection and try again." But here's the twist: it happened during an open session in Chromium. I was watching one episode, but the next one wouldn't load. Now Hulu works in neither Firefox nor Chromium :-/

This seems to be a rather widespread issue with Linux:

http://www.hulu.com/discussions/9/110036/495965
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … 67&page=31

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davidm · 2010-01-11 20:21:30

szym wrote:

I am having the same experience as B-Con. Everything was working fine. Then it suddently completely stopped working with "Sorry we are unable to stream this video. Please check your Internet connection and try again." But here's the twist: it happened during an open session in Chromium. I was watching one episode, but the next one wouldn't load. Now Hulu works in neither Firefox nor Chromium :-/
This seems to be a rather widespread issue with Linux:
http://www.hulu.com/discussions/9/110036/495965
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … 67&page=31

I wonder does forging the User agent as if you were Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP make a difference? They may be discriminating based on the browser in some way perhaps?

Nm the above. Looks like the issue is narrowed down to 64bit flash according to the hulu link given.

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Peasantoid · 2010-01-11 20:41:42

Ach. Confirmed here also. Does not work in Chromium, so definitely a 64-bit Flash issue.

Damn it, Hulu and Adobe.

ed: Trying with lib32-flashplugin. Will post back on results.

Last edited by Peasantoid (2010-01-11 20:55:14)

szym · 2010-01-12 02:58:11

decent workaround: http://fancast.com (same streams as hulu!)

credit: http://www.hulu.com/discussions/9/110036/497616

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B-Con · 2010-01-14 23:28:55

Others have complained as well. I'm glad it's not just me.

I tried huludesktop from the AUR, and it's worked fine for multiple shows so far without any problem. I would have guessed it was Firefox related, but since others in this thread are having problems with the flash player as well I'm guessing maybe it's the flash player.

What's the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of flash? I have version 10.0.42.34-1 of flashplugin installed on x86_64 Arch. Is switching between the versions of flash as simple as copying the different /usr/lib/mozilla/libflashplayer.so into place?

And is the repo flashplugin 64-bit or 32-bit? For a while wasn't it 32-bit since Adobe hadn't didn't release a 64-bit version until December 8?

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reed9 · 2010-01-15 00:31:37

I installed the flashplugin-universal package from the AUR and while hulu.com still gives the error, huludesktop is now working fine and without crashing.

Peasantoid · 2010-01-15 01:07:01

reed9 wrote:

I installed the flashplugin-universal package from the AUR and while hulu.com still gives the error, huludesktop is now working fine and without crashing.

Out of curiosity, which .so did you set in ~/.huludesktop? lib32flashplayer.so or lib64flashplayer.so? (I assume you're on a 64-bit system.)

jwbirdsong · 2010-01-15 01:40:51

I'm curious also... I think I've tried EVERY *flashplayer.so in all locations (Default and copied to ~) also tried flashplugin-universal and have yet to get huludesktop to work on 64-bit system. 32 works fine in chroot.

Tomone · 2010-01-15 23:56:42

I used this in my .huludesktop to get it working

flash_location = /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

reed9 · 2010-01-16 00:27:44

Out of curiosity, which .so did you set in ~/.huludesktop? lib32flashplayer.so or lib64flashplayer.so? (I assume you're on a 64-bit system.)

I am on 64 bit.

[flash]
flash_location = /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/lib64flashplayer.so

syntaxvorlon · 2010-01-22 02:37:21

I would also like to throw in my towel into this thread. I started experiencing similar issues and managed, for a little while, to use huludesktop. Now, after an update, I have lost even huludesktop's functionality.

The update included firefox (3.5.5 -> 3.5.7), gtk(10-09 ->10-10), nvidia(190.42 -> 190.53), and others though those are the most likely to interact with huludesktop. I also looked into it, the latest update to libflashplayer.so was to 10.0.42.34 from 10.0.32.18, which occurred over a month ago, during which time I was able to use hulu on firefox without issue. My guess is that, if it is a flash issue, it is a flash issue that exists on Hulucorp's side of the screen.

Does anyone know if they are looking into this at all?

markatto · 2010-01-22 20:12:55

syntaxvorlon wrote:

I would also like to throw in my towel into this thread. I started experiencing similar issues and managed, for a little while, to use huludesktop. Now, after an update, I have lost even huludesktop's functionality.
The update included firefox (3.5.5 -> 3.5.7), gtk(10-09 ->10-10), nvidia(190.42 -> 190.53), and others though those are the most likely to interact with huludesktop. I also looked into it, the latest update to libflashplayer.so was to 10.0.42.34 from 10.0.32.18, which occurred over a month ago, during which time I was able to use hulu on firefox without issue. My guess is that, if it is a flash issue, it is a flash issue that exists on Hulucorp's side of the screen.
Does anyone know if they are looking into this at all?

Exacty same thing happened to me. And apparently a bunch of people; on the hulu forums people from all different distros are complaining about huludesktop suddenly not working. Hulu in firefox and uzbl stopped working for me a little while back. My Fedora 12 machine still works though for browser-based hulu.

reed9 · 2010-01-22 23:52:33

I gave up and installed nspluginwrapper-flash-10 from the AUR, with nspluginwrapper-ubuntu. Works fine now in huludesktop and in browsers.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32907
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14707

Peasantoid · 2010-01-23 01:42:36

On my system, huludesktop works just fine with flashplugin-universal. I have no idea why, but there you go.

jwbirdsong · 2010-01-23 01:48:05

I give... I've tried EVERY option in this thread... plus a few more..... have NEVER seen huludesktop work on my 64.
I'm content to watch while in my chroot. At least until Hulu sorts their issues out.

....... this is me NOT holding my breath for that.

Tomone · 2010-01-23 02:41:05

syntaxvorlon wrote:

My guess is that, if it is a flash issue, it is a flash issue that exists on Hulucorp's side of the screen.

I think you're right. Now huludesktop is working for me again even though I didn't change anything.

Shirakawasuna · 2010-02-04 08:41:15

I'm guessing no one has found a fix yet? I haven't gotten my chroot's audio working properly, so it isn't an option atm .

Anonymo · 2010-02-14 18:25:05

Doesn't work for me either

whiteychs · 2010-02-16 21:06:32

Hulu has been unaccessible for me and Fancast has stopped working in the past few days.

Huludesktop, however, works fine now.

Carlwill · 2010-03-08 16:43:20

Hulu and Fancast don't work for me on Arch Linux x64

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