2014-04-04, 03:49
(2014-04-04, 02:57)AJCxZ0 Wrote: I have no idea if you're right or wrong, though it sounds plausible, even likely.
The reason I mention it is that there clearly exists a method for a client to easily connect and authenticate to the Hulu service and stream video without requiring any code update. The device code is almost incidental to this. It would be great if the Hulu Video Plugin could do whatever it is that my (little FreeBSD running computer in the) TV does.
The API that your tv is using to connect to hulu is not the same API that the hulu plugin uses. The hulu plugin was reverse-engineered from the Hulu Desktop program that they used to have, and basically got all the videos by pretending to be that program. The API your tv is using is almost definitely some closed-source thing that would have to be reverse engineered in the same way, but is probably a lot harder to do given that it runs on a tv and not a desktop.