Normally, I watch Amazon Prime from a different computer that is hooked up to the TV. Every once in a while, I want to try to watch from my laptop. Just recently, I discovered that my old trick of just installing hal didn’t work. Thanks to WebUpd8, it ended up being pretty simple anyway…
Category: Amazon Instant Video
Amazon Prime Fix Again
We have enjoyed watching many of the Amazon Prime videos in the past. Unfortunately, on the last few machines that I have rebuilt, they wouldn’t play. It just said to upgrade the Flash Player. The usual tricks didn’t work.
Update: I found a different but easier solution for Ubuntu 13.10. See this post.
Thanks to Ask Ubuntu and Aaron, I found the solution. In summary, here are the commands that got the job done:
sudo apt-get install hal sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes rm -rf ~/.adobe
Here are the steps…
Troubleshooting: Playing DRM Videos from Amazon
This is the second time this has happened. I keep getting:
Sorry we were unable to stream this video. This is likely because your flash player could not be updated.
I had just reinstalled my media laptop with Linux Lite OS (a flavor of Ubuntu), and I was trying to watch a video from Amazon. It was one of the Prime Instant Videos.
To fix the issue, I followed McDougall’s instructions. Basically, it was just installing the “hal” package and deleting the .adobe and .macromedia settings directories:
sudo apt-get install hal rm -r ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia
Finally, I rebooted and retried. It all worked fine after that.