playing amazon videos
 

My computer is a Thinkpad X131e. It has an AMD e2-1800 CPU, Realtek ALC269VC audio and AMD Radeon HD 7340 video. I'm running slackware 14.1 stable 32bit with updates installed. I coudn't get the flash player (64bit) to work when I installed slackware64 so I reinstalled 32 bit slackware.


I have been trying to play amazon videos online using both chrome Version 43.0.2357.130 and firefox 39.0. I have flashplayer 11.2.202.468 installed and the hal slackbuild. Chrome has Adobe Flash Player - Version: 18.0.0.194 built in.

When I run firefox I get a warning about an outdated flash player and the flash player plugin crashes and I can either retry or turn in a bug report when it crashes. I have no idea why it crashes?

Chrome seems to run but I have no audio or video just the player controls and a black screen.

Has anyone been able to play Amazon videos with slackware? I have a large library of purchased video so it's important to me to get this working if possible.

Youtube does work using either HTML 5 or the adobe flash player with either chrome or firefox. So, it appears to be a amazon issue. Firefox complains about an outdated flash player since the last update from 38.0.5 to 39.0

I'm just running out of ideas...

I use Firefox (or FF Developers Edition aka Aurora (which has become crap)).
I had to add libhal1.
I read somewhere ( i can Not find info right now, but will look again ) that ... well it was a technical reason, but you need it.

I use openSuSE and found it in this repo
also in build services with additional 'flash' lib files.

hope this helps you.
Landis.

For Chrome, maybe try clearing the Flash cache?

http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager03.html

in my 100,000 bookmarks, I had this bm'd as 'mazon prime'
and this is the 'explanation' for why you need hal1, i based my decision to install it, on.

extra: if you decide you need 'Pipelight'

Landis.

I've tried Everything to get Chrome / Chrome (beta) to work. Even tried Chromium with pepper-flash and nothing. But I need chrome (beta) for Netflix

still working on 'on demand' from TWC
Landis.

You don't need Chrome Beta for Netflix. My Chromium package for Slackware 14.1 and -current plays Netflix just fine with the chromium-widevine-plugin package.

For firefox I installed hal from this slackbuid. It says "The flash plugin currently requires libhal for playback of DRM content. This library provides a compatibility layer and minimal libhal implementation for that purpose.". Sound right? After installing hal I started getting the flash player crashed message. Before installing hal I would just get a message telling me I needed to upgrade my flash player. I'm slowly working my way through every suggestion I've gotten.

I've had no issues using the HAL packages from the 13.37 repos. They install just fine on 14.1 and play the videos just fine. I haven't tried the hal-flash package yet so don't know how that works.

*EDIT* of course after saying this I'm noticing that flash is crashing for me as well. Works just fine on linux mint with firefox 39 & hal installed. I installed firefox 39 and updated my flash player on my slack box (32 bit installation) and flash still crashes.

Flash 11.2.202.468

IS out of date and you WILL see a WARNING!!!!!

update to the current old flash "11.2.202.481"

i thought amazon is using the Microsoft only "dot net" DRM

try "piplight"

or
install windows 7
and the curent dotnet framework and use internet explorer

I'm using firefox and hal on mint and can watch prime videos with no issues. Could try the pipelight route and see how that goes. I'll play around with that tonight and see how it works.

Installing pipelight appears to have solved the problem nicely.

I use hal-flash along with PepperFlash via Chrome and FreshPlayer.

hal-flash works with chrome? That would be nice.

Telling people to install Windows 7 and then use Internet Explorer is being deliberately unhelpful. You have a habit of this, and I'm going to start reporting posts where you do so if you keep it up.

Anyway, I believe the situation is this.

Both Amazon and Netflix offer a Silverlight (.NET) option, and that should work with Pipelight. There is literally zero reason to use Windows 7 or Internet Explorer to watch them. Netflix's Silverlight option is considered to be deprecated even on Windows. I'm not sure if Amazon's is, but it doesn't matter.

Netflix also offers HTML5 video, which works in Linux using Chrome or using Chromium with the Widevine plugin. Both are very easily available to Linux users. This is the preferred option for Linux users.

Amazon also offers their streams via the Flash player, which is well known to use HAL to implement its DRM on Linux. This was stated in many posts in this thread above yours, including the top post. I'd call this the preferred option for Linux users.

You guys are hilarious!

Y'all are still talking about how to make flash work.

Whilst the rest of the world is talking about End-Of-Life of flash.