{"id":5225,"date":"2015-08-24T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2015-08-24T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T16:36:09","slug":"watch-hulu-videos-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/watch-hulu-videos-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch Hulu Videos in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ubuntu_tips1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ubuntu_tips1.png\" alt=\"hulu videos playback in Ubuntu\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the changes to incorporate Adobe Flash DRM technology, Hulu movies and TV shows are not longer working on Ubuntu Linux without HAL support since a couple of weeks ago. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple of weeks ago, Hulu made some changes to their video playback system to incorporate Adobe Flash DRM technology. Unfortunately, this meant that Hulu no longer functioned on Ubuntu because Adobe stopped supporting Flash on Linux several year ago, and therefore Adobe\u2019s DRM requires HAL which was likewise obsoleted about 4 years ago and was dropped from Ubuntu in 13.10. The net result is that Hulu no longer functions on Ubuntu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, Michael Blennerhassett has maintained a PPA repository with HAL packages for all current releases and derivatives, e.g, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17.<\/p>\n<p><u>Below is how-to install the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~mjblenner\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa-hal\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA<\/a>:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>1. Add the PPA. Open terminal from the Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner\/ppa-hal<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hal-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hal-ppa-450x74.jpg\" alt=\"hal-ppa\" width=\"450\" height=\"74\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hal-ppa-450x74.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hal-ppa-600x98.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hal-ppa.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. After adding the PPA, install <code>hal<\/code> package via Synaptic Package Manager. Or by running below commands in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install hal<\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">via: <a href=\"http:\/\/nhaines.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/making-hulu-videos-play-ubuntu\/\">nhaines.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the changes to incorporate Adobe Flash DRM technology, Hulu movies and TV shows are not longer working on Ubuntu Linux without HAL support since a couple of weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago, Hulu made some changes to their video playback system to incorporate Adobe Flash DRM technology. Unfortunately, this meant that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1305],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-hulu-playback-in-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}