When online video powerhouse Hulu recently released its own application for watching video, many observers interpreted the move as explaining why Hulu had asked open source media center player Boxee to remove support for its content. Hulu had been the number one type of content that Boxee users watched, and there were a lot of people who forecasted that Boxee was doomed. That's not so, though. 

Boxee officials have steadily posted workarounds for watching Hulu on Boxee, and Boxee continues to do very well on Apple TVs, where Hulu has no presence. The company is making some other new moves as well. 

We've covered VLC Media Player a number of times, and it is now out in a new version 1.0.0, dubbed Goldeneye. You can download it here. It's available for the Mac, Windows and Linux, and has long been one of the best of all media players. Back in April, VideoLAN put out a call for Mac developers, and the Mac version is slicker than ever. You can use VLC Media Player to transcode videos and songs between formats, stream content, and it's well-known for handling almost any format you throw at it.

Video editing software for Linux is, to put it nicely, quirky. Some editors only work with specific file formats, some work nicely for basic video editing but can be wildly temperamental on seemingly identical machines, and some are powerful to the point of overkill for the average user.

PiTiVi is a non-linear video editor based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. After hearing some positive comments, and seeing development efforts really picking up on the project, I decided to take it for a spin. It is very much in development, but not in the traditional sense. It feels very stable, and the interface isn't confusing or a hindrance. It is, at the moment, very basic when it comes to functionality. There are not plugins or extensions currently available (though feature requests are welcome). However, the project has taken the time to plan its path forward -- and with the basics down, I can't see why real headway won't come quickly.