On Tuesday 12 Feb 2013 07:32:10 Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > I just got amazon prime for the instant videos (among other things) and > figured i should > be able to watch it on linux since its in flash. > However, I have had no luck getting it to play an instant video, > i've narrowed it down to videos with DRM, (because trailers play fine > and DRM screws up everything) > Google searches come up that it needs HAL (which is deprecated) > I even managed to install HAL, and still no luck > > i keep getting "error occurred and your player cannot be updated" > I have the latest flash, chrome and firefox. (tried both) > > Just wondering if others are having the same trouble or if someone has a > solution.
I do not have such an account, so cannot compare with what you're getting on your system. However, I have had success using rtmpdump and friends in the past with various flash videos, as well as youtube-dl. I do fear though that DRM may screw things up, so YMMV. This is how you can try intercepting the stream with rtmpsrv. Run as root: iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT rtmpsrv then try to play the video with Firefox, accepting cookies, etc. At some point if rtmpsrv is successful it will print on the terminal a very long URL. Ctrl+c to stop rtmpsrv, then remove the redirect rule: iptables -t nat -D OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -j REDIRECT and run as a plain user: rtmpdump <URL> If the stream URL was captured successfully you should be able to download it. youtube-dl has a number of extractors some of which may work with amazons implementation. Run 'youtube-dl --list-extractors' to list them. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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