hulu concept question

[mr_lore]

I decided I can't wait for sage or some other plugin to integrate hulu properly on extenders so I came up with this idea:


aqcuire an old but decent computer to run hulu and output over s-video

setup an s-video input channel on sage via one of my avermedia m780 cards

tune to the new sage s-video channel of the old pc on any of my extenders

control the PC/Hulu via a tightvnc session on my netbook or laptop


Since this is all SD the control delay from netbook to TV screen would be minimal right? I can't think of any other complications other than this obviously wouldnt be HD but then again hulu isnt perfect HD to begin with...

Other benefits to include, internet browsing on extenders, which brings with it full youtube control, mlb.tv, games, etc...

Thoughts?

[stanger89]

The delay is due to the encoding, and doesn't really change much SD vs HD. You'll probably still have a couple seconds of delay with that method.

As for the other benefit, surfing is all but impossible at 480i.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by mr_lore

I decided I can't wait for sage or some other plugin to integrate hulu properly on extenders so I came up with this idea:


aqcuire an old but decent computer to run hulu and output over s-video

setup an s-video input channel on sage via one of my avermedia m780 cards

tune to the new sage s-video channel of the old pc on any of my extenders

control the PC/Hulu via a tightvnc session on my netbook or laptop


Since this is all SD the control delay from netbook to TV screen would be minimal right? I can't think of any other complications other than this obviously wouldnt be HD but then again hulu isnt perfect HD to begin with...

Other benefits to include, internet browsing on extenders, which brings with it full youtube control, mlb.tv, games, etc...

Thoughts?

Have you looked into the Netflix hack? This is basically the same principal as that hack.

[mr_lore]

I have, it was inspiration for both my security camera's being a channel and now this, security cameras work just fine and now I was wondering if I could pull this off as long as the control delay would be managable, good call on the surfing on 480i, didnt think of that... well at least video services should be acceptable until I either break down and buy a roku and give up on the one device fetish or sagetv causes me to happy dance at CES 2010 with full hulu support.

[gplasky]

I'm running the Playon server and using the HD200 in standalone mode when I want to watch Hulu or other sources. Navigation is slow and there are some quirks but the wife and I watched the first 7 episodes of Arrested Development and the quality was good. Looked to be almost HD. (I would of responded sooner but got caught up watching it last night.)

Gerry

[mr_lore]

I tried playon what feels like at least a year ago if not more and the navigation was laughable, maybe I'll give it a go again before I get crazy on the frankenstien setup. Thanks

[Beefcake550]

Well, if money isn't much of a problem, you could get a secondary HD-PVR for taking the video output of the other computer and then you get HD!

Some delay, but probably not too bad. As for controlling that other PC, you could try an RF keyboard/mouse. Tune Sage to the channel on the HD200 and then control the other PC with that KYB/Mouse. The input lag would take a while to get used to.....but an interesting idea none the less.

-Brian

[DaveW42]

I believe the SageTV hacked worked on the same PC on which SageTV was installed. Couldn't your setup get by on just a single PC?

I have PlayOn as well, but it stopped working about 6 weeks ago and I haven't been able to get it working properly again. I think I will try it again tonight.

Dave

[mr_lore]

I think I'd drop $200 on another HD200 before I put substantial coin into this to fix the Kitchen client laptop, the tired old radeon express 200m just cant keep up with the HD most of the time, OTA or PVR and the WFA is taking a hit.



Happy wife, happy life!



At gplasky's suggestion, I have being toying with playon and its liveable now, just got to remember and slow down, every 3rd menu navigation takes about 10 seconds which isnt that bad...almost ready to spring for it.