On 02/11/2012 01:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant <emailgr...@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.
