(2013-04-30, 20:55)bkimbel Wrote: Is there any way this plug-in could be modified to launch a browser that would view the video? That way we could still navigate using Bluecop's great GUI. Maybe if the addon wrote the URL to a file or something like that, and then use Advanced Launcher to start the browser?

• WIKI : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Web_Browsers
  
• Youtube Tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXsq4YqAiY0
  

(2013-04-30, 20:55)bkimbel Wrote: Is there any way this plug-in could be modified to launch a browser that would view the video? That way we could still navigate using Bluecop's great GUI. Maybe if the addon wrote the URL to a file or something like that, and then use Advanced Launcher to start the browser?

(2013-04-30, 20:58)DonGateley Wrote: Amazon does not produce content. It merely distributes it for profit. The recent video channel deprecation simply must be due to requirements of of the content producers and not Amazon itself which only stands to lose from these new restrictions. If Amazon can find a way to satisfy these producers while still supporting the prior range of re-distributers like XBMC and browsers (HD) it will almost certainly do so. If not, I really don't think that Amazon can be held accountable for the dictates of a paranoid content industry.

If this contradicts anything I might have said here before, that's because I've given the situation more thought.

(2013-04-30, 21:57)bkimbel Wrote: Just found this browser add-on: XBMC WebBrowser. It's only for Windows, but it lets you watch Prime videos. It may even be a fix for FreeCable!

(2013-04-30, 20:55)bkimbel Wrote: Is there any way this plug-in could be modified to launch a browser that would view the video? That way we could still navigate using Bluecop's great GUI. Maybe if the addon wrote the URL to a file or something like that, and then use Advanced Launcher to start the browser?

Quote:You are now connected to Sukanya from Amazon.com.
Me:The Amazon plug-in for XBMC stopped working.. all content now uses DRM so I am unable to watch it.
Sukanya:Hello Wipmonkey, my name is Sukanya. I'll be glad to help you today.
Me:Hi Sukanya, Thanks.
Sukanya:Recently Adobe has updated the flash since then Amazon instant videos are not compatible with XBMC.
Me:Is there a fix expected?
Sukanya:We're working on it with Adobe team and hope the issue will be fixed soon.
Me:Good to hear.. if there some way I can be contacted once it is fixed?
Sukanya:You can contact us again to know the details regarding this Wipmonkey.
Me:Okay, thanks for you time.
Sukanya:You're welcome Wipmonkey.

(2013-05-01, 23:34)Romans I XVI Wrote: This is what i did as a temporary solution on my machine. Here are the files for my current configuration.

(2013-05-02, 15:43)bkimbel Wrote: HD video from browsers no longer supported: Streaming From Your Computer. See section under "Notes".

(2013-05-02, 08:01)mikefreeman Wrote:

(2013-05-01, 23:34)Romans I XVI Wrote: This is what i did as a temporary solution on my machine. Here are the files for my current configuration.

This isn't ideal, but it could be a decent band-aid until something better is worked out.

If there was a way to make it automatically open straight into the Flash player and fullscreen it, or to bypass Firefox altogether and just push the stream that Bluecop's player attempts to view straight into a fullscreen flash overlay, that'd be even better!

Now, does anyone have any ideas to help resolve this problem that keeps me from using Romans I XVI's mod?

My problem is that in fullscreen Flash (Flash 11.2), the movies play very choppy (varies between about 10-15fps, I'd guess -- very painful to watch after just a few minutes). However, they play smooth not fullscreen (but no one would seriously want to watch a movie that way).

Now, I was experimenting yesterday with Flash settings, and occasionally (and apparently at random), something different happened. Normally when I run the movie in fullscreen in Flash, the controls are huge, like the resolution of the whole player and not just the movie was changed to 480p. That's when it's choppy. But sometimes the controls stayed at 720p (native resolution of my TV), and the movie played perfectly smooth. But I've only gotten this to happen 3 times out of about 20 or more tries yesterday, and no setting appears to be responsible for it.

I tried contacting Amazon support to see if they could help me keep the player itself at 720p, thinking that since this is using an "officially sanctioned" method, they'd be more supportive. Nope. They just told me that Linux has never been an "approved device", and they couldn't assist me further in the matter. I think they're just avoiding helping me at this point because I keep hounding them about supporting XBMC.

Does anyone have any idea how to make 720p in the Flash player happen everytime so that this solution is actually usable?

Thanks!

(2013-05-03, 02:02)Romans I XVI Wrote: If you want to test and see if this player works for you without installing my mod just place the appropriate video code found in the page url after "asin=".

example

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunger-Games/dp/B008602KQI/

changes to

http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/streaming/mini-mode.html?asin=B008602KQI


Here is a short video of how it looks when its all working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKk6LNd_PpA&feature=youtu.be

(2013-05-03, 16:33)varanasi Wrote: Anxious to try this. The video look great.

I am a bit ambivalent about whether to work around amazon's bad behavior or to just not use amazon any longer.