[Bug 1048446] [NEW] Flash requires hal for video DRM

[Tommy Trussell]

Public bug reported:

Until Adobe fixes the issue (if they EVER do) for some types of online
videos using DRM, the flash player will fail if you do not have hal
installed. See the official word from Adobe at
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/flash-player-11-problems-
playing.html

For example, users of Amazon Instant Video complain that some videos
don't work and others do. The recommendation is to install hal and
usually they will all work. Amazon's forum has a couple of threads  that
include examples of videos that do and don't work. I will try to find
some trailers or something that show the problem but don't require Prime
membership to view so I can add concrete examples to this bug.

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdThread=Tx29SBOI1ENX0DM

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM

(As of this date the second discussion has become very long, but it
includes the best examples of working and nonworking videos and a more
involved discussion of the dangers of installing hal on an otherwise up-
to-date Ubuntu system.)

I know one "fix" would be to make hal a dependency of the flashplugin-
nonfree package, but I know Debian and Ubuntu are trying to stomp out
hal dependencies wherever possible.

** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: hal

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  Flash requires hal for video DRM

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