Netflix and Hulu Streams in Frontrow!

[matera]

I have gotten this to work with my queue in Hulu using the preference tool that was talked about earlier but I have had no luck with my subscriptions feed. That is the money shot if you ask me. If I can get that to work I would not have to log into Hulu that often. My mac would get populated with things to watch as they get updated in Hulu.


Thanks for you help...

Waiting and hoping.

[ardielola]

Having trouble getting Understudy to play on an external display. When using Front Row on my plasma tv, if I select Understudy and try to play content, it reverts back to the iMac display. Interestingly, if I activate front row again using the apple remote, I get back into the Front Row interface on the external display AND maintain the use of the iMac screen (i.e. it doesn't go blank).

This may have something to do with another plug-in that I have installed to automatically route Front Row to the external display (TV Row 2.0).

I guess the question is: Has anyone tried/succeeded in running Understudy on an external display?

[DavidBaker]

I tried individual show links again last night and it worked like a charm. I now have a menu item with a listing of all the shows that we watch on Hulu. Very cool. As I think someone mentioned in this forum, I switched "feed" to "http" in Safari before I cut and pasted to get this to work.

Now I want an icon in Frontrow, I know someone talked about it earlier, but does someone have more specific instructions?

[mac37205]

... A follow up to my earlier post.

IMAGE ICON
To make an icon, first make a black 512 x 512 pixel backgound (I use ImageWell). Add an image or two and save as png. Open image in Preview, go to tools, and select "assign profile". Change RGB to sRGB and save the image as "ApplianceIcon.png". Navigate to the FrontRow package at System/Library/CoreServices/FrontRow, right click to "show package contents". Within the FrontRow package, place "ApplianceIcon.png" icon in the Resources folder at Contents/Plugins/frUnderstudy.frappliances/Contents/Resources.

Notes:
1) If image is a size other than 512 x 512 pixels or RGB profile is used, Frontrow will not load and image errors will appear in the logs.
2) A smaller 100 x 100 pixel "blurred image" is not necessary as a blurred image will be automatically rendered from the 512 x 512 image.

ICON POSITION
I seem to recall that Understudy shows up in the third position (actually an OrderValue of 2 since DVD and Movies are at the -1 and 0 positions, respecitvely) because that position is currently unused and there are no position tags in the property list. Therefore, I moved EyeTV (PyeTV plugin) to the third position (OrderValue 2) and Understudy to the bottom.

To move Understudy to the bottom of the Front Row menu, use TextEdit or your favorite editor and add these two lines to the info.plist file (within front row package at Contents/Plugins/frUnderstudy.frappliances/Contents/info.plist); between the dict tags:

<key>FRAppliancePreferedOrderValue</key>
<real>8</real>

[Ben Tex]

Post your custom icon guys. I have absolutely no skills that way.

[curt]

[mac37205]

[curt]

[mac37205]

curt,

I didn't want to give the impression that you did anything wrong - I honestly don't understand these legal issues. I just want to make sure that this is done correctly.

It appears that Hulu and Netflix are OK with using official logos because both sites have download links. The Netflix site shows some examples of proper and improper images; for example, on shirts.

Following your hint, I made a simple icon from stacking two downloaded images (Hulu = 355 x 170 pixels and Netflix = 355 x 165 pixels) on a transparent background and then adding a drop shadow to each. Your icon is clearly more artistic!

[curt]

I'll take a look at their sites. Until then, here's one of my generic ones. A simple U (for Understudy) in Hulu green shouldn't ruffle any feathers.

http://img79.imageshack.us/my.php?image=understudyvt5.png
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[mac37205]

[macfromtehdead]

Pref Setter is brilliant! took me a minute to figure out what was wrong, but I got it fixed -- both my hulu queue and my subscriptions are available from front row. Thanks!

[Ben Tex]

That icon works for me too. Thanks Curt!

[curt]

[ardielola]

anyone know if hulu is still working on understudy? recently read about hulu being pulled from boxee today