[gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
the following thread:

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM

I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
there is a checksum failure with that file:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html

Does anyone have advice for navigating this?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Dale]

Grant wrote:
> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
> the following thread:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
> 
> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
> there is a checksum failure with that file:
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
> 
> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
> 
> - Grant
> 
> 


You may want to ask on -desktop too.  The gurus that keep KDE3 and
friends going are on there but it may take a day for them to reply.

I did some searching, I found the same thing you did.

Me, I would try commenting the patch out of the ebuild and see if it
works.  Maybe, just maybe, hal will work well enough for what you are
doing.   Then again, it might not compile either.

Dale

:-)  :-)

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!

Miss the compile output?  Hint:
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Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:09:04 -0800, Grant wrote:

> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
> there is a checksum failure with that file:

You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums
for all files.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
> the following thread:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>
> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>
> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>
> - Grant
>

What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here.
I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime
members)  in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me.

Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else?

How is it broken?

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>
> You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums
> for all files.

Thanks Dale and Neil.  I will try that before tonight.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
>> the following thread:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>
>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>>
>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here.
> I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime
> members)  in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me.
>
> Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else?
>
> How is it broken?

My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free
for Prime members.  We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to
watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an "Updating Player" message
appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can
not watch the episode.  Episodes we have already watched still work
fine.  The same problem is described here:

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
>>> the following thread:
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>>
>>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>>>
>>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>>>
>>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>>
>> What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here.
>> I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime
>> members)  in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me.
>>
>> Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else?
>>
>> How is it broken?
>
> My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free
> for Prime members.  We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to
> watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an "Updating Player" message
> appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can
> not watch the episode.  Episodes we have already watched still work
> fine.  The same problem is described here:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>
> - Grant
>

I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't
receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just
fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as
described.

Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then
my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much
stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does
fail.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Paul Hartman]

On 02/11/2012 01:09 AM, Grant wrote:
> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
> the following thread:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
> 
> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
> there is a checksum failure with that file:
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
> 
> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
> 
> - Grant
> 

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/929/cpsid_92948.html

confirms that Flash player uses HAL to play DRM content. Trying the DRM
test on that page results in no video playing for me (with no HAL to be
found on my system). So it's not an Amazon problem directly, but an
Adobe Flash problem in general, probably. I couldn't find any open bugs
in Gentoo Bugzilla about it.

FWIW trying to play those Amazon videos on my Firefox 10 and 64-bit
Flash crashes the flash player plugin. I never even see the bit about
the update...

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Richard Cox]

On 02/11/2012 01:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
>>>> the following thread:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>>>
>>>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>>>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>>>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>>>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>>>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>>>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>>>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>>>>
>>>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>>
>>> What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here.
>>> I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime
>>> members)  in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me.
>>>
>>> Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else?
>>>
>>> How is it broken?
>> My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free
>> for Prime members.  We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to
>> watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an "Updating Player" message
>> appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can
>> not watch the episode.  Episodes we have already watched still work
>> fine.  The same problem is described here:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>
>> - Grant
>>
> I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't
> receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just
> fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as
> described.
>
> Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then
> my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much
> stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does
> fail.
>
> - Mark
>
My guess is...you still have hal installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox <conardcox@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>>>
>> I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't
>> receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just
>> fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as
>> described.
>>
>> Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then
>> my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much
>> stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does
>> fail.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
> My guess is...you still have hal installed.
>

No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time.

mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal
[I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of
multihead systems via the XRandR extension
mark@c2stable ~ $


I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is
required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of
DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the
problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is
likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon
isn't goign to change what's already there.

I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As
best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing
under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years'
episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in
Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows
has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM
is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this
as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with
the owners of the source material.

I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
more militant...

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mick]

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On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox <conardcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> >> I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't
> >> receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just
> >> fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as
> >> described.
> >> 
> >> Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then
> >> my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much
> >> stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does
> >> fail.
> >> 
> >> - Mark
> > 
> > My guess is...you still have hal installed.
> 
> No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time.
> 
> mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal
> [I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of
> multihead systems via the XRandR extension
> mark@c2stable ~ $
> 
> 
> I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is
> required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of
> DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the
> problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is
> likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon
> isn't goign to change what's already there.
> 
> I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As
> best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing
> under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years'
> episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in
> Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows
> has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM
> is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this
> as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with
> the owners of the source material.
> 
> I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
> many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
> more militant...

Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content creators 
when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse!  Ha, ha, 
ha! :-))

Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and 
then download it directly to your machine?

I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with 
them.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:59:14 Mark Knecht wrote:
<SNIP>
>> I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
>> many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
>> more militant...
>
> Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content creators
> when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse!  Ha, ha,
> ha! :-))
>

Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-)))

> Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and
> then download it directly to your machine?
>
> I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with
> them.
>

Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just
streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save
anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime ==
more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM
for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I
couldn't overcome pretty easily.

Cheers,
Mark

> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

> <SNIP>
>>> I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
>>> many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
>>> more militant...
>>
>> Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content creators
>> when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in reverse!  Ha, ha,
>> ha! :-))
>>
>
> Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-)))
>
>> Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream address and
>> then download it directly to your machine?
>>
>> I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account with
>> them.
>>
>
> Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just
> streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save
> anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime ==
> more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM
> for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I
> couldn't overcome pretty easily.

Since I don't want to run VMWare, mine goes (Netflix+makemkv)+Hulu
Plus+Amazon Prime.  Loving it, although this new Amazon problem is a
thorn in my side.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>
> You need to recreate the manifest for the ebuild, it contains checksums
> for all files.

I think I got everything set up, but I get:

# ebuild hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild manifest
 * ERROR: sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4 failed (depend phase):
 *   multilib-native.eclass could not be found by inherit()
 *
 * Call stack:
 *              ebuild.sh, line 521:  Called source
'/usr/local/portage/sys-apps/hal/hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild'
 *   hal-0.5.14-r4.ebuild, line   7:  Called inherit 'eutils'
'linux-info' 'autotools' 'flag-o-matic' 'multilib' 'multilib-native'
 *              ebuild.sh, line 255:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   		[ ! -e "$location" ] && die "${1}.eclass could not be found by inherit()"
 *
 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
=sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4',
 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4'.
 * This ebuild is from an overlay named 'x-portage': '/usr/local/portage/'
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4/temp/die.env'.
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4/work/hal-0.5.14'

Can this be fixed?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mick]

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On Sunday 12 Feb 2012 02:07:28 Grant wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> >>> I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than
> >>> many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be
> >>> more militant...
> >> 
> >> Nah!  No need to apologise.  Respecting the wishes of the content
> >> creators when you don't *have* to makes you more militant - but in
> >> reverse!  Ha, ha, ha! :-))
> > 
> > Thanks for your willingness to allow me to continue attending... :-)))
> > 
> >> Have you tried using the rtmpdump and friends to sniff the stream
> >> address and then download it directly to your machine?
> >> 
> >> I don't know if it works with Amazon, because I do not have an account
> >> with them.
> > 
> > Never heard of it actually, and frankly I'm so enamored of just
> > streaming what I want when I want it that I don't really want to save
> > anything. Just the good stuff at NetFlix+Hulu Plus+Amazon Prime ==
> > more than I can watch in the next few years. I just keep on VMWare VM
> > for watching all this stuff and haven't had any problems that I
> > couldn't overcome pretty easily.

If rtmpdump works (it may well not) you can pipe its output to mplayer, or 
wherever you want.

> Since I don't want to run VMWare, mine goes (Netflix+makemkv)+Hulu
> Plus+Amazon Prime.  Loving it, although this new Amazon problem is a
> thorn in my side.

Let's try to remove this thorn, in case we might be able to:

Emerge rtmpdump:

$ eix -l rtmp
[I] media-video/rtmpdump
     Available versions:  
			2.3 "amd64 ~arm hppa ppc ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd" [gnutls polarssl 
ssl]
		(~)	2.4 "~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~x86-fbsd" [gnutls 
polarssl ssl]
		**	9999 [gnutls polarssl ssl]
     Installed versions:  2.4(23:23:30 08/12/11)(ssl -gnutls -polarssl)
     Homepage:            http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/
     Description:         Open source command-line RTMP client intended to 
stream audio or video flash content


Fire up your browser, or whichever way you normally access your content.  Do 
not start streaming yet.  We need to redirect the stream:

# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT


Start a server:

# rtmpsrv


Now try to start playing the content using your browser, flash player or what 
not.  After a few seconds (be patient) there should be a URL stream shown on 
the terminal you started the server from.

Close the server (Ctrl+c) and remove the redirect in your iptables:

# iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT


Now go to a terminal and paste in the stream.  If it succeeds downloading 
you're in luck!  If not try rtmpsuck in case that works.

If you are getting adverts at the start of the stream then you may need to 
wait a bit longer until the main video starts and a different stream shows up.  
Some times blocking cookies in the browser can screw things up, so beware of 
that.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
> the following thread:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>
> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>
> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>
> - Grant

I was able to install hal via the kde-sunset overlay instead of the
multilib overlay.  Now instead of the "Updating Player" error, flash
crashes like this in firefox and chrome:

chrome[3681]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f677543202c sp 00007f6764804e00
error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f6775422000+3e000]

plugin-containe[3727]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fd0225d502c sp
00007fd0118bce00 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7fd0225c5000+3e000]

I re-emerged dbus to no avail.  Any ideas?

- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
>> the following thread:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>>
>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to
>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download
>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2.  The following thread provides a
>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried
>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding
>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but
>> there is a checksum failure with that file:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html
>>
>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I was able to install hal via the kde-sunset overlay instead of the
> multilib overlay.  Now instead of the "Updating Player" error, flash
> crashes like this in firefox and chrome:
>
> chrome[3681]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f677543202c sp 00007f6764804e00
> error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7f6775422000+3e000]
>
> plugin-containe[3727]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fd0225d502c sp
> 00007fd0118bce00 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.5.8[7fd0225c5000+3e000]
>
> I re-emerged dbus to no avail.  Any ideas?
>
> - Grant

It's working!  I had forgotten to start hald.  Now all of the videos
on Amazon Prime are working.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> It's working!  I had forgotten to start hald.  Now all of the videos
> on Amazon Prime are working.
>
> - Grant
>

Congrats, and thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Mark