Comments on: The Search is On

By: TOM

TOM — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:03:23 +0000

IS YOUR AD TAYLOR LIKE A FAKE CLOSE DOOR BUTTON ON AN ELEVATOR?

By: Rebecca Harper

Rebecca Harper — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:19:31 +0000

Based on Jared’s feedback, we’ve fixed the range of dates for videos – you can now use the calendar year dropdown to search as far back as 1900. See if you can find which video is our oldest!

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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:48:57 +0000

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By: Rebecca Harper

Rebecca Harper — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:02:43 +0000

Some advice for the stuttering during fullscreen playback:
1. Go to the Hulu.com homepage
2. Right-click on the big video image in the middle of the screen and select the “Settings…” menu option
3. Click the first tab with the screen and paintbrush icon. You should see a checkbox that reads “Enable hardware acceleration”.
4. If it’s currently checked, uncheck it. If it’s currently uncheck, check it.
5. Click Close
6. Try to play any video on Hulu and switch to full-screen mode. Does it work now?

If it still doesn’t work, please close your web browser and try again. Finally, if nothing helped fix the issue, you may have an older version of Adobe Flash installed. Please reinstall Flash by following these steps:

1. Uninstall Flash following these steps – http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
2. Restart your computer.
3. Reinstall the latest version of Flash following these steps – http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

By: Jamie R

Jamie R — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:57:55 +0000

Two Questions/Comments
1. Why has nobody in the history of Internet video ever thought of inventing a STOP button? NOT a pause button, which continues to load the vid in the background and use what we are told is VALUABLE BANDWIDTH, but a STOP USING MY BANDWIDTH button. A STOP LOADING THIS VID button, so I can just read the comments. Not even YouTube has a STOP button. Just a pause button. If bandwidth is valuable, then why can’t I stop the vid, short of using NoScript to disable the Flash?

2. Hulu videos on my PC tend to halt while in fullscreen mode, while the audio keeps playing. If I hit ESC and go back to the windows screen, the video catches up immediately, then I can put down the popcorn, click the fullscreen button again, and resume my entertainment.

At first I thought this was a bug. After a bit of rational (if somewhat cynical) thought, I realized it’s probably a feature, so that 3 or 4 times per show, we are forced to go back to the screen with THE AD BANNERS, so we have to look at them, even for a second, on top of the normal interspersed ads in the vids.

IS THIS A BUG? OR IS THIS A FEATURE?

By: J W

J W — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:38:44 +0000

Typo: I meant “exited out of full-screen”.

By: J W

J W — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:30:34 +0000

I’m really not sure where to comment on this, but I hope that commenting on the blog randomly is okay…but have you guys noticed the issue of maintaining full-screen while the videos are on auto-play, and then on a subsequent video, if the video is exited out of small-screen, the video resets completely? I’ve had issues with this, and it is very annoying. Can you guys fix the issue of the videos resetting when the continuous-play rolls to the next video when it has not been minimized during the changeover and then the video is taken out of full-screen? thanks.

By: Rebecca Harper

Rebecca Harper — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:33:23 +0000

Jared, you can adjust the search query to meet your needs by entering a date search operator to get the years you want. For example, entering "date:1900-1979" calls up all the videos with air or release dates within that range. Check out the results here. Additionally, this query: date:1900-1979 channel:"horror and suspense" [note the quotes around the channel name since it's more than one word] refines those results to those in our horror and suspense channel, which may be up your alley since you're looking for noir. There are even more search operators like the date and channel queries. They're all outlined on our search tips page, found in the support/FAQ section: http://www.hulu.com/support/search_tips.

By: Jared Case

Jared Case — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:20:53 +0000

Cool! I was looking around on Hulu to find more information for my latest blog post, about finding film noir from home. I wanted to include all the noir titles I could find on Hulu and was hoping to narrow the search by date. Now I can!

Not Cool! Your date search parameters start at 1974. And setting the end date in 1974 and leaving the begin date open doesn’t work, either. So, I still can’t perform the search I wanted to, but it’s a step in the right direction!