[ale] Amazon Prime on Linux

[JD]

Sadly, the XBMC machine is a E-350 - like a dualcore atom, so Wine works
extremely slow.

I hate DRM, but I don't want to use illegally licensed anything. Can't call it
"stealing" since it doesn't deprive anyone else of their use.

HDMI audio down sampling from 5.1 to 2.1 and preventing video hardware without
HDCP to be used just sucks. This is "better?" For whom?  Looks like there are
cheap workarounds for HDMI-2-Digital audio that might work, but probably not,
then there are the $400+ HDFury devices that may not actually be the same models
sold in the USA as elsewhere. Crazy.

Mint 13 install going now ... had a corrupt ISO, but moving files around here
using a Linux box, remotely mounting a cifs share from an NFS source isn't
exactly the norm.  Just 10 minutes to install ... nice.  Damn nano.

On 07/22/2013 05:01 PM, Don Kramer wrote:
> I believe I've had no problems with Hulu Plus both in Firefox and Chromium.  And
> Erich Hoover's "Netflix-Desktop" which is his custom mod from the Wine
> development branch that also in the same install takes care of installing
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer, Silverlight and the Windows version of Firefox, and
> I've had great success with Netflix on Ubuntu 13.04 with it.
> 
> http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hulu has always worked for me via XBMC. It "just works." Never tried Hulu-Plus.
>      There is a full thick client application for Linux for Hulu, but haven't used
>     it in a few years.
> 
>     Sadly, I've been unable to get any video streaming from Amazon in or outside
>     XBMC on Linux in a few months.  Won't use Chrome - Chromium does not work.
>     Firefox does not work. A browser-based solution doesn't really help too much
>     anyway. 10ft interface requirement.  No Chrome - don't trust google.
> 
>     I have installed the most current Flash and HAL on the 3 different machines
>     tested - all Ubuntu 12.04.  Everything on the XBMC is working perfectly, except
>     Prime. I'm loath to change now.
> 
>     Mint may be worth it, but any RPM-distro will not. Too many years in RPM-hell to
>     ever go back voluntarily. Nothing against OpenSUSE - ran that for 3 yrs at work
>     and never had much issue, just never felt as comfortable as Debian, Ubuntu, and
>     APT. Didn't challenge RPM much on those machines. Install a few server apps and
>     patch monthly. That was it.  Ran a desktop at home - fine, not exciting or new.
> 
>     Spent $100 on a Roku3 to solve the issue. Haven't decided if it will stay or go
>     yet. It isn't the fantastic thing to me that many people seem to believe. XBMC
>     is much more flexible, plays anything on the local network and almost anything
>     over the internet without transcoding. It doesn't phone-home to a central
>     service provider. The Roku3 has only HDMI out for video AND audio, which screws
>     with getting audio to any receivers here - none have HDMI-anything. The THX one
>     supports digital coax and optical. Connecting the Roku3 to a projector will be a
>     HUGE issue.  Tried to use the audio-out on the remote control (meant for
>     headphones) to a receiver, but it was scratchy 2.0 audio except with their
>     included headset. Even my Shure's got scratchy audio.  Looked at getting a
>     little older model, but the 5x slower CPU scares me.  Yep, need to send it back.
>     Talked myself into this just now.
> 
>     Goodbye Farscape, until XMBC works again.
> 
>     Someone said Mint works with Amazon prime ...
> 
> 
>     On 07/22/2013 03:04 PM, Scott Plante wrote:
>     > 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
>     >
>     >
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > *From: *"JD" <jdp at algoloma.com <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>>
>     > *To: *ale at ale.org <mailto: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
>     >
>