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On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Richard Cox <conardcox@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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. |
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No, hal isn't installed and hasn't been for quite a long time. |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -Ic hal |
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[I] kde-base/kephal (4.7.4(4)@01/21/2012): Allows handling of |
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multihead systems via the XRandR extension |
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mark@c2stable ~ $ |
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I think the more likely scenario is that for newer videos Amazon is |
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required by the owners of the video content to use newer versions of |
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DRM and it's really these newer versions of DRM that's causing the |
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problems. Older content that's been on their site for a while is |
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likely using older versions of DRM that still work because Amazon |
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isn't goign to change what's already there. |
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I could play any Lost episode whether I've played it before or not. As |
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best I can tell anything that's been added more recently is failing |
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under Linux. I'm having no problems playing Grant's 'The Wonder Years' |
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episodes from Amazon inside an NT VM on my Gentoo box, but it fails in |
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Linux proper. There's nothing inherently wrong about that. If Windows |
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has the DRM stuff and Linux doesn't, primarily because Open Source DRM |
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is inherently _NOT_ DRM, then that's the way it is. I don't see this |
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as an Amazon problem, or a Flash problem, but rather a problem with |
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the owners of the source material. |
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I do recognize my willingness to live with DRM is quite different than |
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many of my Linux friends. For that I apologize. I guess I should be |
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more militant... |
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- Mark |
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