Hulu With Adobe Air - Very Close To Perfect
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Spent a few minutes last night tinkering with this method of accessing Hulu using Adobe Air on a break I was taking from the usual grind. to be honest, it’s pretty cool and the eventual development path does look promising as you can see from the various screen shots from the above link.
Unfortunately despite it being a great approach to begin with, I was disappointed on one point with the application. For whatever reason, I did not seem to have success bringing things to a full screen. Yes, it does present the option of full screen. However, the reality is that it translates into about half of my screen and even at that, ends up with that half in the middle. Long story short, it is too small.
What makes this confusing as well as frustrating is that if I watch the same show on Hulu.com itself, this is not a problem. I can full screen the show and it will fill the screen as expected. This maybe something to do with how the videos are being served, not sure yet.
At the end of the day, I would still recommend watching this app. It’s a cool idea and I for one am looking forward to where it will end up next.
6 Comments
FritzThird
February 7th, 2009
at 3:28am
Thanks for recommending this Adobe Air application. So far My Media Player is working perfectly on my system (Mac OS 10.5.6) and I don’t have any problems getting videos to play full screen.
Matt Hartley
February 7th, 2009
at 11:13am
FritzThird: This is good to hear, clearly it is something with my dual-monitor setup. Either way, this looks really promising. :)
Kevin
February 9th, 2009
at 12:54pm
Full screen “worked” for me, but I only tested with widerscreen formatted shows. Still - I love the idea. I expect to see more and more of this. Adobe Air is still in it’s infancy.
Rambozo
February 9th, 2009
at 12:55pm
I also have no problems with full screen on my primary monitor. I run Vista on a dual-monitor setup.
Kamalesh
February 10th, 2009
at 1:13pm
Interesting item, Matt.
Are you able to view 480p videos with Hulu/Air, also?
One caveat is that I hope Adobe can reduce CPU utilization with flash videos. I have a top-end MBP, and it usually spikes to ~80% on dual-CPUs watching…with fans blowing, not an optimal viewing experience…
Dan Bromberg
February 12th, 2009
at 7:29pm
I was about to install Adobe Air but the installer had a “vendor unknown” message, so I backed off. We all know Adobe is cool, but is there any security issue here?