Anyhow, a very smart fellow over at the Boxee Forums figured out how to work around the issue with a little bit of javascript…
Disclaimer: This might make your computer explode, your network implode, and format your nodes. I’m not responsible, nor is jzongker over on the Boxee Forums.
Simply save the following code as hulu.js (download link) and put it in the following location:
| Mac | /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/ Boxee/system/players/flashplayer/hulu.js |
| Linux | [Boxeepath]/system/players/flashplayer/hulu.js |
| Windows | probably [Boxeepath]\system\players\flashplayer\hulu.js in Program Files |
| Boxee Box | Apparently this technique does not work |
boxee.browserWidth=1280;
boxee.browserHeight=720;
boxee.earlyTimers = true;
boxee.enableLog(true);
boxee.onInit = function() {
browser.setConfigChar('general.useragent.override','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/540.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chrome/9.1.0.0 Safari/540.0');
}
if (boxee.getVersion() < 5)
boxee.renderBrowser = true;
boxee.parseBoxeeTags = false;
boxee.autoChoosePlayer = false;
var current = 0;
var h_width = 720;
var h_bottom = 23;
var started = false;
var active = false;
var duration = false;
var is_paused = false;
var alt_player = false;
boxee.onBack = function() { boxee.onEnter(); }
boxee.onLeft = function() { boxee.onEnter(); }
boxee.onRight = function() { boxee.onEnter(); }
boxee.onUp = function() { boxee.onEnter(); }
boxee.onDown = function() { boxee.onEnter(); }
wmodeFix = setInterval(function() {
boxee.getWidgets().forEach(function(widget) {
zorder_id = widget.getAttribute("id");
if (zorder_id == 'banner_c')
browser.execute('document.getElementById("'+zorder_id+'").style.zIndex = 99999;');
});
}, 500);
boxee.onDocumentLoaded = function() {
boxee.setMode(1);
boxee.showNotification("[B]Press Enter to view full screen[/B]", ".", 500);
}
boxee.onEnter = function()
{
boxee.setMode(0);
if (boxee.getVersion() < 5) browser.execute('window.scrollTo(0,50);'); clearInterval(wmodeFix); boxee.showNotification("[B]Switching to full screen...[/B]", ".", 2); playerTimer = setInterval(function(){ if (!active) locatePlayer(); else updateProgress(); }, 1000) } function playerReference() { id = boxee.getActiveWidget().getAttribute('id'); if (id.length > 0)
return 'document.'+id+'.';
else if (alt_player != false)
return alt_player;
else
{
var locateMe = "(function(){objects=document.getElementsByTagName('embed'); for (var i in objects) { if (objects[i].getAttribute('src') == '"+boxee.getActiveWidget().getAttribute('src')+"') return i; }})()";
locateMe = browser.execute(locateMe);
if (locateMe > 0)
{
alt_player = 'document.getElementsByTagName("embed")['+locateMe+'].';
return alt_player;
}
else
return 'document.player.';
}
}
function updateProgress()
{
if (!duration)
duration = parseInt(browser.execute(playerReference()+'getDuration()')) / 1000;
if (duration)
boxee.setDuration(duration);
current = parseInt(browser.execute(playerReference()+'getCurrentTime()')) / 1000;
if (isNaN(current))
alt_player = false;
if (current > 0 && !started)
started = true;
progress = current / duration * 100;
alert(progress);
boxee.notifyCurrentTime(current);
boxee.notifyCurrentProgress(progress);
if (started && progress > 99.9)
boxee.notifyPlaybackEnded();
}
function locatePlayer()
{
boxee.getWidgets().forEach(function(widget) {
flashvars = widget.getAttribute("flashvars");
if (flashvars.indexOf('hulu.com/watch') != -1 && flashvars.indexOf('bitrate=') != -1 && !active) {
active = true;
boxee.renderBrowser = false;
var crop = (widget.width - h_width) / 2;
widget.setCrop(crop, 0, crop, h_bottom);
boxee.notifyConfigChange(widget.width-(crop*2),widget.height-h_bottom);
widget.setActive(true);
}
});
if (active)
{
boxee.setCanPause(true);
boxee.setCanSkip(true);
boxee.setCanSetVolume(true);
}
return active;
}
boxee.onPause = function()
{
is_paused = true;
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'pauseVideo()')
}
boxee.onPlay = function()
{
is_paused = false;
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'resumeVideo()')
}
boxee.onSkip = function ()
{
if (is_paused) return;
update = (duration < 3000) ? (current + 60) : (current + 120);
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'seekVideo('+update+')');
}
boxee.onBigSkip = function ()
{
if (is_paused) return;
update = (duration < 3000) ? (current + 180) : (current + 360);
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'seekVideo('+update+')');
}
boxee.onBack = function ()
{
if (is_paused) return;
update = (duration < 3000) ? (current - 60) : (current - 120);
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'seekVideo('+update+')');
}
boxee.onBigBack = function ()
{
if (is_paused) return;
update = (duration < 3000) ? (current - 180) : (current - 360);
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'seekVideo('+update+')');
}
boxee.onSetVolume = function(volume)
{
browser.execute(playerReference() + 'setVolume('+volume/100+')');
}