Boxee Hack Restores Hulu Support (Sort Of)

DeviceGuru writes "Boxee has restored support for Hulu, along with several other enhancements, to its free media center platform for PCs and Macs. The modification, a hack to Boxee's RSS feed functionality, involves having Boxee users enable the support themselves by cutting/pasting URLs from Hulu's RSS feed page into their account on Boxee's website. It works, but one can't help wondering how it's really different from Boxee's original — superior — Hulu support. Oh, the games media companies play!"

Re:Good will?

[Chyeld]

They aren't adding it back so much as pointing out that their existing feature now supports Hulu without needing a dedicated plugin.

Thus, if Hulu's "partners" still have a problem with it, they need to kill RSS feeds rather than play games trying to block apps.

Re:Good will?

[qoncept]

They weren't playing games. They said "we want this to stop going on."
Hulu went to Boxee and said "They want this to stop going on,"
Boxee said "ok," and removed the good plugin.
Boxee told you a crappier way you could do it.

They made their software crappier and put on a front in looking like they were cooperating while they really weren't.

Compiling Boxee

[SlashdotOgre]

For those Linux users who want to brave compiling Boxee from source, I was able to get the previous release (0.9.8.4880) working in Gentoo using this thread: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2309 [boxee.tv]

I plan to give the new release (0.9.9.5324) a go this weekend rather than waiting for Boxee to come out with their Ubuntu version later this month. If I can get it to work, I'll post back to that thread.

Re:I wish XBMC would get some coverage...

[jcostantino]

I bought a GeForce 8400 video card for a HTPC I made running MediaPortal on XP. The card I bought was $50 and has VGA, DVI, component, S-video, and composite output. The CPU (a 2.8HT P4) literally idles at about 3% when displaying 1080P.