[ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

[Darren Hoyland]

This worked for me for Firefox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hal

Then restart.


Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/204319/how-to-watch-amazon-instant-video-on-linux/

On 12 August 2015 at 22:09, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> 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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