[ale] Riddle me this

[Scott Plante]

Just a moment ago I tried and was able to play Amazon Prime video in Chrome on openSUSE 12.3. 

Not that anyone reported problems, but Hulu worked for me too. 


It's ironic that as a video site Netflix doesn't even have a promotional video on its site you can play without joining up or some specific test video you can play to see if your setup works. If you know of one, I'll give it a try, but I'm not interested in signing up right now. 


People have mentioned Android, but I wonder how these sites work with Chromebooks. As I understand it, ChromeOS is much closer to standard Linux, just with most things hidden under the covers. And with the Samsung Chromebook (orig.$249) being the top selling Amazon laptop for months on end, it would seem to be in these sites interest to support ChromeOS at least, and from there regular Linux might be an easy workable but unsupported option. 


Scott 

----- Original Message -----

From: "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> 
To: ale at ale.org 
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 2:18:36 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Riddle me this 

On 07/15/2013 01:35 PM, Adrya Stembridge wrote: 
>> No. It doesn't - or it didn't two weeks ago. 
> 
> I watched an episode of Sons of Anarchy on Amazon Prime last night. Linux Mint 13. 

This is GREAT NEWS!!! 

Do you use XBMC or what is the specific setup? I can't test now, but will 
definitely test tonight. 

BTW, here is one of the Amazon discussions on this problem: 
http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20prime/ref=cm_cd_pg_oldest?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx19TKUDUCVHDNP&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=Tx19HPH8H35E889 

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