Linux gets native Hulu desktop support.

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I just caught wind today of the native desktop client for Hulu in Linux. My desktop runs Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 64-bit. I downloaded the 64-bit deb from http://www.hulu.com/labs/hulu-desktop-linux

The first time I tried to run it a window told me it could not find flash on my system. I found flash at the following three locations on my computer:

When I modified ~/.huludesktop to point to the first and third location I got this same error. When I pointed it to the second location the application would begin to run and then segfault.

A little Googling showed me two possible the solutions. The first was to copy the plugin from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins and then point the Hulu configuration file to there. That worked, but the best solution is to point the Hulu configuration file to /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Once the configuration file knew where to get flash everything runs great. The videos look good.

I also installed it on my 32-bit laptop and everything worked without any hassle trying to configure the Hulu configuration file.

I filed a bug on the Hulu site about the issue with the 64-bit installation and I hope they fix it soon so users have a good installation experience.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1286425 has a good tutorial on being able to launch Hulu straight from MythTV. I gave that a spin on my laptop and it works good as well. There is also some conversations about getting Hulu working well, including the resolution to my 64-bit problems.