Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

[Grant]

>> 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