Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

A friend of mine build the same thing for Spotify called mutify, but Spotify released an update within a couple of weeks just making the advertisements pause whenever your audio is muted. The Spotify client will also pause the ad if the audio level in Spotify is below ~30%. Hulu will have a harder time though since it's web based (right?). Nice hack anyway. :)

Re: Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

#7

Post by amalcon » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 5:30 PM UTC

So, it's a proxy that mutes the system whenever it detects 'adload' in the URL, and unmutes when it detects 'resume'. It's a clever trick, but unfortunately it's rather easy to ruin, and if you leave it up during other browsing you will probably get false positives.

Still, nicely done.

Re: Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

#8

Post by telecaster » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 5:40 PM UTC

amalcon wrote: post #7

So, it's a proxy that mutes the system whenever it detects 'adload' in the URL, and unmutes when it detects 'resume'. It's a clever trick, but unfortunately it's rather easy to ruin, and if you leave it up during other browsing you will probably get false positives. Still, nicely done.

This potential problem is partly addressed in the latest version. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

#9

Post by telecaster » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 6:03 PM UTC

chopsueyar wrote: post #5

Can you make it work on Xbox 360, please?

If someone sends me an Xbox 360 I'll try.

Re: Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter

#10

Post by tibbon » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 6:16 PM UTC

telecaster wrote: post #9

chopsueyar wrote: post #5

Can you make it work on Xbox 360, please?

If someone sends me an Xbox 360 I'll try.

Sounds like a much more difficult hack, but if you want to borrow mine for a while I'm not really using it much.