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

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.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