How to Watch Hulu and Other streaming Media on your Roku!

Over the past few months, We have heard about Hulu Plus and how Everyone wants to be able to watch Hulu on your Television Cheaply. Now it is possible with the use of Dyyno a new company that has joined forces with Roku to be able to Stream anything to the Roku with very little experience or training.

What is Dyyno??

I am unsure how to describe them but I will quote from Crunchbase Profile:

Dyyno provides the breakthrough online video distribution platform that allows anyone to instantly share live video and rich media with an audience ranging from small groups to massive numbers of viewers. Dyyno’s reliable and brandable online video platform enables individuals, small and medium businesses (SMBs), communities, and large businesses to instantly share video and multimedia without IT involvement and for 10 times less cost than traditional solutions. Founded in 2007 and backed by Artiman Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has a world-class technical team with video and networking expertise in Stanford P2P multicast.

[Via Crunchbase Profiles]

As you can read, this company allows you share your desktop or video’s instantly with others without any understanding about the mechanics behind the scenes. I expect this company to become widely used in the next coming months or years. You have a Video Podcast and you want people who don’t have computers to be able to watch, this would be one way to share your video for others who might not have the time to sit down and watch on the computer. Want to teach a wide variety of people around the world, without having them on line at a certain this would become the next way to teach people without needing to worry about schedules. They can watch on their own time, when it is convenient for them.

What is needed to watch Hulu on my Television with the Roku Box??

Very Simple, You would download a program called “Dyynosetup.exe” from their main website and install on it on your computer. Something to consider before doing this though are:

Connection Speed (Bandwidth) — I have tried this with my cable broadband(3 mb up/7mb down) and it is very choppy. So it would work better with Fiber optic broadband. You see you have to have 2 streams downloading and one stream uploading to be view the video on the Roku. If you have this then you will have no problems. I haven’t tried to record it then watch it on Roku, that would only require one stream to view the video. This might be the way I would have to do it to watch it on the Roku. I also Suggest you have a wired connection to receive the best possible speed on both upstream and downstream.

Speed of the Computer – Since you will be decoding and encoding the video, you will need a fast system. I would recommend something with dual or quad cores and at least 1.7 mhz for each core. This also will help keep the video smooth when you are wanting to use this service. Although this shouldn’t be a problem because most people have really fast systems, this could be an issue for slower systems and the video on the Roku.

Make the Channel Private – Keeping the channel private by having a password will greatly decrease the chances someone complains to the Hulu about this and keep you from any lawsuits. If someone guesses the password this can be bad also, so make sure to create a password no one could possibly guess to protect yourself from lawsuits. Unless your a Podcaster then I would recommend you make it available to the public.

After all this all you would need to use this is the program and to sign up with Dyyno. You will see just how easy this program is to broadcast anything and everything to the Roku. I want to test out other ideas and see how well they work. If you want to try out Dyyno, Just use your Roku box to find this little channel store. Once done you will then add your account to the Dyyno Channel. Usually it will be (http://www.dyyno.com/[username]). All you will need to do is search for the [username] and add that to your favorites. That’s it. You will now be able to stream to your Roku!!

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