Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
Thanks, that works. I installed hal and now Amazon Prime videos play in Firefox on Ubuntu. However, for the past couple of days I have noticed that playing a video in Youtube no longer works, whether I allow Flash or not. Yet if I go to other sites that have videos, e.g. Vimeo, the video playback works fine, with or without Flash being allowed (in Firefox 40), also plays videos okay on yahoo and nick.co.uk (picking some video sites at random). But Youtube works in other browsers. David K On 13/08/15 14:22, Darren Hoyland wrote: This worked for me for Firefox sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hal Then restart. Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/204319/how-to-watch-amazon-instant-video-on-linux/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
Thanks, Barry, although that does seem to suggest that Ubuntu is broken somewhere, where other Linuxes are not. So maybe we should be asking Canonical to fix this? David K On 13/08/15 17:45, Barry Titterton wrote: Hi David, I have also had a lot of problems trying to get Amazon Prime to work. My two Ubuntu machines do not work: I have both a 32 bit and a 64 bit install of 14.04 LTS with Unity, and they both have the Ubuntu version of Firefox v.40. Pipelight has also been a failure. The only machine that plays Amazon Prime streamed video is an elderly Advent laptop which runs 32 bit Mint 17.2 XFCE with the Mint version of Firefox v.40. The Amazon Prime problem does seem to be a Ubuntu specific issue. I hope that this info' is of some help to you. Barry T -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
On 12/08/15 22:09, David King wrote: > I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. > It's Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop. > > > David K > > Hi David, I have also had a lot of problems trying to get Amazon Prime to work. My two Ubuntu machines do not work: I have both a 32 bit and a 64 bit install of 14.04 LTS with Unity, and they both have the Ubuntu version of Firefox v.40. Pipelight has also been a failure. The only machine that plays Amazon Prime streamed video is an elderly Advent laptop which runs 32 bit Mint 17.2 XFCE with the Mint version of Firefox v.40. The Amazon Prime problem does seem to be a Ubuntu specific issue. I hope that this info' is of some help to you. Barry T -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
This worked for me for Firefox sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hal Then restart. Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/204319/how-to-watch-amazon-instant-video-on-linux/ On 12 August 2015 at 22:09, David King wrote: > I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. It's > Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop. > > I have tried it in Firefox, Chromium, Qupzilla, Opera, Vivaldi and Midori -- > it fails in all of them, including causing Midori to crash. However I got it > to work perfectly on a friend's laptop running Linux Mint 13. > > So I tried it in Linux Mint 17 in Virtual Box but that would not work. And > then in Linux Mint 13 in Virtual Box, which did not work until I updated > Firefox and installed Flash and then it worked perfectly. > > I know that some people get it working in Ubuntu (someone said they did in a > recent Ubuntu podcast, episode 21 of series 8, but did not say how) -- so > how can I get it to work in Ubuntu? > > I have got it working on my Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC/Kodi, but would be > great to have it running in Ubuntu on my PC as well. > > > David K > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
