[ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[Aidan Harris]

On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 22:09 +0100, David King wrote:
> I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu.
> It's Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop.
> 
> I have tried it in Firefox, Chromium, Qupzilla, Opera, Vivaldi and
> Midori -- it fails in all of them, including causing Midori to crash.
> However I got it to work perfectly on a friend's laptop running Linux
> Mint 13.
> 
> So I tried it in Linux Mint 17 in Virtual Box but that would not work.
> And then in Linux Mint 13 in Virtual Box, which did not work until I
> updated Firefox and installed Flash and then it worked perfectly.
> 
> I know that some people get it working in Ubuntu (someone said they
> did in a recent Ubuntu podcast, episode 21 of series 8, but did not
> say how) -- so how can I get it to work in Ubuntu?
> 
> I have got it working on my Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC/Kodi, but
> would be great to have it running in Ubuntu on my PC as well.
> 
> 
> David K
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I just tested this for myself using the Freshplayerplugin[1] and
couldn't get it to work in Firefox. I haven't tried using the much older
and outdated version 11.2.202.508 of flash player (I suspect this is
what is installed with the flashplugin-installer package?) but I doubt
it'd work. If you're okay using a proprietary browser I tried accessing
Amazon Instant Video in Google Chrome and it worked no problem at all.
Another alternative could be to try Pipelight[2] which may work although
I've not tried it myself.

[1] - https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin
[2] - http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html