On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox <[email protected]> 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... - Mark
