Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
Not sure about that one. That wasn't a problem for me, but that could well be because I'd set YouTube to use HTML5 by default ( http://www.youtube.com/html5 ) On Fri, 14 Aug, 2015 at 12:25 AM, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: 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
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 linux...@avoura.com 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/
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
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
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/
[ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 22:09 +0100, 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/ I just tested this for myself using the Freshplayerplugin[1] and couldn't get it to work in Firefox. I haven't tried using the much older and outdated version 11.2.202.508 of flash player (I suspect this is what is installed with the flashplugin-installer package?) but I doubt it'd work. If you're okay using a proprietary browser I tried accessing Amazon Instant Video in Google Chrome and it worked no problem at all. Another alternative could be to try Pipelight[2] which may work although I've not tried it myself. [1] - https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin [2] - http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html -- 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 August 2015 at 22:09, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. It's Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop. Can you give us a link to an example video? Colin 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work
I installed Pipelight as well, but that did not work. I tried Chromium which has Flash 15 installed and that did not work. But Linux Mint 13 has only Flash 11 installed and it works. It is not a browser issue, I listed several I tried. It must be a configuration issue or similar I am thinking. David K On 12/08/15 22:32, Aidan Harris wrote: I just tested this for myself using the Freshplayerplugin[1] and couldn't get it to work in Firefox. I haven't tried using the much older and outdated version 11.2.202.508 of flash player (I suspect this is what is installed with the flashplugin-installer package?) but I doubt it'd work. If you're okay using a proprietary browser I tried accessing Amazon Instant Video in Google Chrome and it worked no problem at all. Another alternative could be to try Pipelight[2] which may work although I've not tried it myself. [1] - https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin [2] - http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
