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Amazon-Instant-Video WITHOUT Pipelight! « on: June 08, 2015, 05:47:05 PM »

Today, I uploaded App-like .desktop files to my





So, if you are in the same unfortunate boat as I am (having only linux-machines & an Amazon-Prime Account), you may have noticed, that you simply cannot watch Amazon-Instant-Video on Linux (neither Firefox, nor Chrome). Apparently, some users report, that it is indeed possible with Firefox+flash-11.2+libhal, but that didn't work for me :S



Anyway, the only other option for you is pipelight with either M$ Silverlight or the Windows-version of Adobe-Flash.



UNTIL NOW! I just read a very cool and interesting post about this topic (neither libhal, nor pipelight is currently available on Voidlinux, my Distribution of choice):

Apparently, Google-TV's and some other google products are able to replay Amazon-Instant-Videos, not because they are able to run Amazon's DRM, but because these devices are so important to Amazon, that they disable the DRM for these devices, exclusively. Luckily, we can use that for our advantage (for now), by useing their useragents:



I tested this on Chromium-43 (pepperflash-17.0), Firefox-38 (flash-11.2), Palemoon-25.3 (flash-11.2)

All you need to do is download a "Useragent" Addon for your browser (eg:



Code: [Select] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.127 Large Screen Safari/533.4 GoogleTV/ 162671

Could possibly work with Midori & Qupzilla as well

Cheers!







EDIT:

A positive side-effect is, that native flash (both, adobe & pepperflash) perform much better than pipelight.

A negative side-effect is, that full-screen & volume-control is disabled (you can use your OS's mixer for sound and F11/fullscreen-button of your browser) UPDATE:Today, I uploaded App-like .desktop files to my NotABug . it makes use of Chromium and pepperflash. Check it outSo, if you are in the same unfortunate boat as I am (having only linux-machines & an Amazon-Prime Account), you may have noticed, that you simply cannot watch Amazon-Instant-Video on Linux (neither Firefox, nor Chrome). Apparently, some users report, that it is indeed possible with Firefox+flash-11.2+libhal, but that didn't work for me :SAnyway, the only other option for you is pipelight with either M$ Silverlight or the Windows-version of Adobe-Flash.UNTIL NOW! I just read a very cool and interesting post about this topic (neither libhal, nor pipelight is currently available on Voidlinux, my Distribution of choice):Apparently, Google-TV's and some other google products are able to replay Amazon-Instant-Videos, not because they are able to run Amazon's DRM, but because these devices are so important to Amazon, that they disable the DRM for these devices, exclusively. Luckily, we can use that for our advantage (for now), by useing their useragents:I tested this on Chromium-43 (pepperflash-17.0), Firefox-38 (flash-11.2), Palemoon-25.3 (flash-11.2)All you need to do is download a "Useragent" Addon for your browser (eg: THIS or THIS ) and set the useragent to:Could possibly work with Midori & Qupzilla as wellCheers!EDIT:A positive side-effect is, that native flash (both, adobe & pepperflash) perform much better than pipelight.A negative side-effect is, that full-screen & volume-control is disabled (you can use your OS's mixer for sound and F11/fullscreen-button of your browser) « Last Edit: July 18, 2015, 10:11:43 PM by JayVii » https://jayvii.pagekite.me/

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Re: Amazon-Instant-Video WITHOUT Pipelight! « Reply #1 on: June 08, 2015, 06:11:36 PM » Oh good nice find indeed, I use amazon prime for movies and TV a bit more these days as netflix is going into the toilet. dolphin_oracle Newbie





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Post Merge: August 18, 2015, 01:32:16 PM UPDATE: amazon prime in the latest google-chrome-stable seems to be working fine for me now without any hacks whatsoever. looks like maybe they are moving to a html5 player. bad news on the amazon prime front. A friend of mine just got this email, looks like amazon is dropping google tv supportUPDATE: amazon prime in the latest google-chrome-stable seems to be working fine for me now without any hacks whatsoever. looks like maybe they are moving to a html5 player. « Last Edit: August 18, 2015, 01:32:16 PM by dolphin_oracle » mxlinux.org

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