GetFLV can download Hulu.com videos now? I have problems with it!

Originally Posted by borboleta (Post 12585)

blimey thanks for the info. I am using the trial version, I get the red "xmark", There is no info about the downloaded percentage, speed elapsed and remained time. My trial is about to expire. Somehow I can not download h.264streams from Hulu. I checked in the downloaded folder, I have one file at 13bytes and the other at 0bytes

Originally Posted by getflv (Post 12590)

Can you give us detailed information about your problem? Please tell us the version of GetFLV and the url of your HULU video. We will check it and help you.

Originally Posted by getflv (Post 12590)

Can you give us detailed information about your problem? Please tell us the version of GetFLV and the url of your HULU video. We will check it and help you.

Originally Posted by borboleta (Post 12617)

Hi getflv. It seems that downloads from Hulu like "The Three Stooges", and "Bewitched are not possible. I cannot download any type of stream. I tried Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 and the new one 10.0.32.18. I am using GetFlv 8.8.23.
Thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by blimey (Post 12514)

GetFLV 8.8.21 is a lot better. This version now always gives two download links, one of which is h.264 (hi res). However, there are still a few issues:

1. The playlist sent by hulu usually will have 4-6 entries, usually with text such as this:

24fps_H264_400K
24fps_H264_650K
24fps_H264_Medium
24fps_H264_1Mbps

Getflv 8.8.21 usally grabs the link to "24fps_H264_Medium", which is fine - but sometimes it only grabs the link to "24fps_H264_400K" even though "24fps_H264_Medium" is available for that title. Getflv should try to grab all the links in the playlist, although I realize that this may confuse some users.

2. Getflv 8.8.21 is successfully finishing the h.264 downloads (the full file has been 100% downloaded), however the download list in Getflv will show something like 73% and a red X - which the user might interpret to mean that the transfer interrupted when it really has finished. Also, because of this, Getflv won't move the file to finished downloads - but it really has finished.

Originally Posted by blimey (Post 12619)

I looked at "The Three Stooges - Disorder In The Court".

It seems the problem is that there really isn't a high quality (what hulu calls "480p") version on hulu's server for this episode. There is only the standard quality file. So, GetFLV is grabbing a link to a H264_400k file that isn't there. Plus, getflv is not picking up the standard quality link for some of these episodes.

To demonstrate this, try the episode "The Three Stooges - Hoi-Polloi":
For that episode, getflv does find the standard quality link, and is able to download.

So, it seems that getflv needs some more work for these particular episodes to make sure it gets the correct high quality link, and also always gets the standard quality link too.

I should also mention that getflv occasionally has a run-away memory leak problem; at times it can grab over a gigabyte of memory.

Originally Posted by blimey (Post 12619)

I looked at "The Three Stooges - Disorder In The Court".

It seems the problem is that there really isn't a high quality (what hulu calls "480p") version on hulu's server for this episode. There is only the standard quality file. So, GetFLV is grabbing a link to a H264_400k file that isn't there. Plus, getflv is not picking up the standard quality link for some of these episodes.

To demonstrate this, try the episode "The Three Stooges - Hoi-Polloi":
For that episode, getflv does find the standard quality link, and is able to download.

So, it seems that getflv needs some more work for these particular episodes to make sure it gets the correct high quality link, and also always gets the standard quality link too.

I should also mention that getflv occasionally has a run-away memory leak problem; at times it can grab over a gigabyte of memory.