None of my Linux boxes can do full-screen HD Hulu without blockiness and jerky video. This includes all major video cards (very recent ATI 4850 and nVidia 9xxx, as well as older Intel onboard, ATI 3200 onboard), and both 32 and 64 bit builds of Flash. I'll give the desktop player a try, but I'm not holding out hope of being able to use it for actual big screen viewing. I sometimes watch shows in a window while working, and that works fine on all of my Linux boxes. But full screen remains useless.
Hulu shows run smoothly in firefox (with some cycles to spare).
That is, when Flash Player 10 isn't segfaulting and taking all of Firefox with it.
I really recommend http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel both for speed and so that if Flash crashes it's mostly only killing itself.
Re:Hulu Has A Desktop Client For Linux
by zacgarrett on Friday October 09, 2009 @08:04PM
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I just tried to play the office on high with my desktop system and it was unwatchable due to how choppy it is. On this same system I play 1080p content with mplayer without an issue.
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor 4gb ram
So, for me anyway, it's actually worse than normal Hulu.