[ale] Amazon Prime on Linux

[Barlow, Jim D]

Subject: Re: [ale] Amazon Prime on Linux

> There are 2 people on this list who claim to have it working in the last week.
> They run Mint13 and OpenSUSE.  Nobody else has admitted to using XBMC with XBMC.
> I 've been unable to get it working on Ubuntu 12.04 systems either.

> Just loaded Mint-13 with XBMC.  Pushing my .files over there now. Should know if XBMC under Mint works or not in the next hour.

> While I'm waiting, tried firefox, flash and Amazon Prime.  Wow. It worked.
> Nothing special in the setup - just a normal install, but Mint does add plugins that other distros will not.

> * Firefox
> * flash + about 10 diff video plugins by default - didn't add anything (purged
> Realplayer)
> * NoScript
> * AdBlock Plus
> Still worked.  There was an issue with a lower-than-wanted screen resolution and slow flash performance, but xrandr and binary video drivers will fix that > later.

FYI, works fine here with Fedora 18 + Fedora Utils (the "banned codecs") + Google Chrome Browser OR Firefox

- Jim