2010-01-03, 03:00
Netflix requires silverlight -> no go on linux either way.
Hulu requires RTMPE, plus a javascript engine to unwrap all the obfuscation they throw in the path of actually obtaining the URLs -> not all that easy unless you're actually a browser. The RTMPE side of it is easy enough I suspect, though Adobe will probably not be terribly impressed, given their sue-happy nature with others that have tried that route.
I agree that using something like webkit or chrome is the only way to go long-term, though it's incredibly clunky for what in the end is a just a wrapped h264 stream. It'd be nice to just have the stream to play - that's all people want, after all. Instead they wrap it up in obfuscation (DRM, but they give you the key) so that you are forced to use their crappy players with no HW acceleration etc.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hulu requires RTMPE, plus a javascript engine to unwrap all the obfuscation they throw in the path of actually obtaining the URLs -> not all that easy unless you're actually a browser. The RTMPE side of it is easy enough I suspect, though Adobe will probably not be terribly impressed, given their sue-happy nature with others that have tried that route.
I agree that using something like webkit or chrome is the only way to go long-term, though it's incredibly clunky for what in the end is a just a wrapped h264 stream. It'd be nice to just have the stream to play - that's all people want, after all. Instead they wrap it up in obfuscation (DRM, but they give you the key) so that you are forced to use their crappy players with no HW acceleration etc.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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