HOW-TO: Use the latest version of Flash with Firefox

[vinnywright]

Hi

Before I perform this, I installed Chrome for netflix works great. Would this break chromes ablity to play netflix.

if you mean installing the pepperflash for firefox ,,,,,,,,no it will not brake chrome.

VINNY

Hi

Before I perform this, I installed Chrome for netflix works great. Would this break chromes ablity to play netflix.

[vinnywright]

SR.... I agree! Though if that truely uses SilverLight then if the PPAPI along with the Silverlight Install I've done I wonder if it would work then too. I wish I could test but I don't have that service.

? ,,,,,,,, no silverlight installed @hear

the amazon video uses flash +DRM ,,, the DRM part (digital rights management) is what requires HAL to work with flash ....... as far as I know ?

VINNY

[MoonRise]

SR.... I agree! Though if that truely uses SilverLight then if the PPAPI along with the Silverlight Install I've done I wonder if it would work then too. I wish I could test but I don't have that service.

[SteveRiley]

Well, that's a bummer that the PPAPI player won't work with Amazon's videos. Curse you, digital restrictions management!

[GreyGeek]

I discovered the same thing this evening, Vinny!
The newer flashplayer was freezing my FireFox browser so I purged it, but kept the hal repository, and installed the repository version of flashplayer. I than ran hald ("sudo hald") and Amazon Prime Movies began playing for me, too!

I just finished watching "Still Mine", a story about two elderly couple and their fight against bureaucracy.
I'm as tall as the guy in the movie and my wife is about as tall as the woman who plays his wife. What he shows towards his wife is how I feel about mine. Great movie.

[vinnywright]

K ,,,,so it wont work (amazon prime video) in 14.04 with this updated flash player as posted @hear ,,,,,,,,,,,BUT in 14.10 with the stock player and doing this

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal                                                                                               
[sudo] password for vinny:                                                                                                                                                
Sorry, try again.                                                                                                                                                         
[sudo] password for vinny:                                                                                                                                                
 Trying to keep HAL alive for a little longer, mostly because I watch flash videos that use DRM, and flash needs HAL for that to work.                                    
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal                                                                                                      
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                          
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp3ztlwgvu/secring.gpg' created                                                                                                                       
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp3ztlwgvu/pubring.gpg' created                                                                                                                       
gpg: requesting key BF7B8DAF from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com                                                                                                         
gpg: /tmp/tmp3ztlwgvu/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created                                                                                                                        
gpg: key BF7B8DAF: public key "Launchpad PPA for Michael Blennerhassett" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

then

sudo apt update && sudo apt install hal

then

rm -rf ~/.adobe

and we have prime



and



he he he ,,,,,,old a$$ hal still working for us

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Aaa yes ,,,,,,HAL , I remember when it was the NEW way to have user mounted removable media auto mounted ......................ancient Huh

I just wander if installing it will have unforeseen consequence.

VINNY

When I had it installed it never interfered with anything. When I installed 14.04 I never installed HAL. This week, when trying to get the new flashplayer running with Amazon, I installed it. I saw the hald daemon, along with several other hal services in the processes list, but never noticed any difference in the operation of my 14.04. When APV didn't play I purged hal.

[vinnywright]

Amazon Instant Video is DRM-protected WMV wrapped in a Silverlight container. I think there's a way to get it via Flash, but you need to also install HAL -- a very ancient and now-deprecated abstraction layer for hardware.

Have a look here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%2...20on%20demand/

Aaa yes ,,,,,,HAL , I remember when it was the NEW way to have user mounted removable media auto mounted ......................ancient Huh

I just wander if installing it will have unforeseen consequence.

VINNY

[MoonRise]

I have SilverLight installed. See below. I don't know how it works with Amazon because I don't use Amazon but I think it should work. It works for all the other Silverlight applications that need it. There is a Thread somewhere here on how to install.

[dtr]

The instructions here worked perfectly, but I experienced poor playback performance and it tended to crash much more often. I guess I will be sticking with the older version.

I will celebrate when Adobe Flash is finally purged from the internet.

[GreyGeek]

Running the hal daemon (hald) allowed me to play Amazon Prime Video with the older Flashplayer, but now that I've upgraded to the latest and greatest flashplayer APV won't play, even when hald is running. It spins the busy wheel for a few seconds and then quits without any msgs.

The newer flashplayer runs so well on YouTube and other sites I am going to keep it and not going to revert.

Another complaint I have about APV is that when you add movies to your watch later list and then connect to APV with your REGISTERED TV, the Vizo TV interface to APV doesn't give you access to your watch later list.

[SteveRiley]

Amazon Instant Video is DRM-protected WMV wrapped in a Silverlight container. I think there's a way to get it via Flash, but you need to also install HAL -- a very ancient and now-deprecated abstraction layer for hardware.

Have a look here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%2...20on%20demand/

[vinnywright]

Aww *blush* Glad it's working for everyone so well.

well it still wont play amazon prime video for me ,,,,,,but dosent try to update the player .......

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

I used the second line to uninstall flash, and it seemed to work.

You need to run both lines. You still have the old flashplugin-installer package.

Thanks, Steve, your instructions worked perfectly.
You're amazing, man!

Aww *blush* Glad it's working for everyone so well.