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 > -- > [email protected] > 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 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
