Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon-Instant video

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:09:13PM -0600, Kevin Brandstatter wrote:
> No thats not it, i am using the adobe plugin not pepperflash.
> This is the message that I get
> 
> http://imgur.com/LoNB9RV
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> On 02/12/2013 09:14 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 01:32:10AM -0600, Kevin Brandstatter wrote:
> >> I just got amazon prime for the instant videos (among other things) and
> >> figured i should
> >> be able to watch it on linux since its in flash.
> >> However, I have had no luck getting it to play an instant video,
> >> i've narrowed it down to videos with DRM, (because trailers play fine
> >> and DRM screws up everything)
> >> Google searches come up that it needs HAL (which is deprecated)
> >> I even managed to install HAL, and still no luck
> >>
> >> i keep getting "error occurred and your player cannot be updated"
> >> I have the latest flash, chrome and firefox. (tried both)
> >>
> >> Just wondering if others are having the same trouble or if someone has a
> >> solution.
> >>
> >> -Kevin
> > Is this attached screenshot the type of message you get? If so, you should
> > have clicked on the link there which states "Why can't I watch videos on my
> > Chrome browser in Linux?" ... and this is the message it provides:
> >
> > The Flash Player Plugin in Chrome removed support for Digital Rights
> > Management (DRM) in Linux as part of the upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4. This
> > upgrade was bundled with the latest Chrome 22 update for Linux. If you applied
> > the Chrome update, you are no longer able to watch DRM-protected content, such
> > as movies and TV episodes. Trailers are unaffected as they do not use DRM. To
> > get around this issue, you can use a different browser, such as Firefox. For
> > information on Chrome and the Flash Player plug-in, see:
> > https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=108086.
> >
> > My Gentoo workstation is using firefox-18.0.1 and just updated to
> > adobe-flash-11.2.202.262 but won't play the free instant video I tried.
> >
> > Since that's the latest version of flash in portage, I supposed you could try
> > and get the later source and create a local overlay and try that.

It's the same error message, I just forgot to attach the screenshot before.
Here it is attached now.

You really just can't get all the web experiences you want w/out the darkside.
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