On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox <conard...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > >> I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't > >> receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just > >> fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as > >> described. > >> > >> Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then > >> my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much > >> stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does > >> fail. > >> > >> - Mark > > > > My guess is...you still have hal installed. > > No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time. > > mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal > [I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of > multihead systems via the XRandR extension > mark@c2stable ~ $ > > > I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is > required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of > DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the > problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is > likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon > isn't goign to change what's already there. > > I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As > best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing > under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years' > episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in > Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows > has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM > is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this > as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with > the owners of the source material. > > I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than > many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be > more militant...
Nah! No need to apologise. Respecting the wishes of the content creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse! Ha, ha, ha! :-)) Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and then download it directly to your machine? I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with them. -- Regards, Mick
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