Hulu works on skyfire as of 7 April 10

atomicvocabulary · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2010, 11:41 PM

I didn't find this out until a few minutes ago. I am still on the fence about getting an HD2 and wanted to test out another section of performance. Can anyone test it out and see how well it works? Specifically audio video lag?

#2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2010, 11:54 PM

Just pulled it up and it worked well. Watched a clip of an action sequence with lots of screen transitions and fast movements and the phone handled it no problem, no distorting or audio lag. If you scroll the page while its playing the video will delay but thats expected.

RKnight · #3 (**permalink**) 04-08-2010, 01:26 AM

Yes it does work very good. I myself have never been a big user of Hulu, however I may start now that i can access the website from my device and my device has such a large and excellent quality display.

**Dr.8820** · #4 (**permalink**) 04-08-2010, 02:09 AM

it works, but slingbox is better! how many people can say that they're watching hbo or encore on their phone!

darnell · #5 (**permalink**) 04-08-2010, 09:34 AM

It also works with generally available videos from http://www.fancast.com/, which plays Hulu videos. But the Comcast customer login link is not working. If the Comcast customer login link worked, Comcast customers WOULD be able to watch HBO and Encore programs and movies without a Slingbox

.

I don't know why the Comcast customer login does not work with Skyfire, but I hope they get it working.

On a related sidebar, has anybody figured out how to get Windows 7 Media Center videos on their PC to stream on their HD2 without a remote desktop connection?

JQuill · #6 (**permalink**) 04-08-2010, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by darnell

It also works with generally available videos from http://www.fancast.com/, which plays Hulu videos. But the Comcast customer login link is not working. If the Comcast customer login link worked, Comcast customers WOULD be able to watch HBO and Encore programs and movies without a Slingbox

.

I don't know why the Comcast customer login does not work with Skyfire, but I hope they get it working.

On a related sidebar, has anybody figured out how to get Windows 7 Media Center videos on their PC to stream on their HD2 without a remote desktop connection?

I don't believe this is possible. The way windows does Media Sharing is through Windows Media Player, not Windows Media Center (at least the way I've always done it). You have to enable file sharing in windows media player then your computer is discoverable as a media center via Wifi (this is how I stream movies from my laptop to my PS3) , but I don't think that the HD2 can pick up wifi media centers at all as the feature is simple "enabled" in windows media player on the laptop, then you have to have a device that can read wifi media centers...as far as I know there's not HD2 app that will let you do it. The PS3 runs all movies without issue is this manner, including full 20+ gig 1080p blu-ray rips.

ksemt7781 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-09-2010, 02:46 AM

When I try hulu I get a mesage that says unfortunately this video is not avalable on your platform

darnell · #8 (**permalink**) 04-09-2010, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ksemt7781

When I try hulu I get a mesage that says unfortunately this video is not avalable on your platform

You got the latest version of Skyfire installed?

RKnight · #9 (**permalink**) 04-09-2010, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr.8820

it works, but slingbox is better! how many people can say that they're watching hbo or encore on their phone!

what version of Slingbox do you have working? I have never dealt with Slingbox, but I was looking at them at Best buy and they have diffrent models. I was wondering if the HD model works with the HD2.

ksemt7781 · #10 (**permalink**) 04-12-2010, 02:33 PM

yes I do, Just downloaded it directly to my mobile from the skyfire site.