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On 02/11/2012 01:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to |
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>>>> the following thread: |
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>>>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM |
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>>>> I added the layman overlays multilib and kde-sunset in order to |
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>>>> install hal, but the emerge fails because it can't download |
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>>>> hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2. The following thread provides a |
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>>>> few links to this file but they no longer work, and I tried |
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>>>> downloading hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-4.tar.bz2, extracting, adding |
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>>>> the missing file as indicated, and recreating the bz2 tar archive, but |
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>>>> there is a checksum failure with that file: |
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>>>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-906838-start-0.html |
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>>>> Does anyone have advice for navigating this? |
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>>>> - Grant |
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>>> What exactly is broken about it? I run a mostly stable machines here. |
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>>> I am streaming an episode of Lost (which is free for Amazon Prime |
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>>> members) in Firefox 9.0 as I write and it's working perfectly for me. |
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>>> Or is this about the for pay stuff, or something else? |
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>>> How is it broken? |
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>> My wife and I are plowing through The Wonder Years which is also free |
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>> for Prime members. We're in the middle of season 6 and if we try to |
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>> watch an episode we haven't watched yet, an "Updating Player" message |
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>> appears, the update downloads, an error message appears, and we can |
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>> not watch the episode. Episodes we have already watched still work |
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>> fine. The same problem is described here: |
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>> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM |
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>> - Grant |
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> I've just tried a number of videos I've never watched before. I don't |
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> receive any messages about "Updating Player" and they all played just |
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> fine. However I then tried your Wonder Years stuff and that failed as |
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> described. |
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> Unless this was caused by an update specifically done last night then |
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> my machine is completely up to date as of yesterday afternoon and much |
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> stuff that I've never watched before does work but some certainly does |
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> fail. |
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> - Mark |
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My guess is...you still have hal installed. |