Amazon Video won't play
Hello Linux community. I'm a newbie to Linux and have gotten as far as installing Linux Red hat enterprise desktop 7.4 on my home computer in an attempt to defeat Bill Gate's ever stronger stranglehold over my life. I'm trying to play videos on the amazon web site through their amazon video service. I just keep getting the message "Web browser is missing a digital rights component". The message is followed with these instructions on how to remedy the problem:
""""" In your web browser's address bar, type about:addons, press Enter, and then on the left, click Plugins. For the Widevine Content Decryption Module, select Always Activate, and then refresh the video's page and try watching the video.
If the video doesn't play, go back to Plugins, click the gear icon at the top of the page, and then click Check for Updates. When the plugins have updated, refresh the video's page, and then try watching the video. """""
I have done these to no avail. The videos will not play. Other clues which may have a bearing on this SNAFU are as follows:
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When I go to the application installer within Linux and look up firefox, I find firefox there with its page which shows that it is already installed. I see on that page too an UNcheckED check box for flash player with the description, "codec for multimedia and rich content". When I check this box I get denied the right to install it with a Linux pop up box having a denial and apology in it.
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I cannot install Chromium either from the application installer to try to succeed with video playback on that browser. I can see Chromium in the application installer, but I get a similar installation denial/apology as with item 1 just above.
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I am the administrator on the red hat installation and have the password to get past numerous different things which require a password.
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I was not able to install any of the items on the supplemental binary dvd download from Linux Redhat because I don't know how to run those files. I'm used to clickable executable files from Windows and have no skills running the terminal window and its needed gobbledeegook language. I downloaded the supplemental files and burned them to a dvd, but couldn't succeed in doing anything with them.
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I have already searched the community discussions on this topic with all sorts of keywords even targeting the discussions with google advanced searches which would only return results from the discussions and found nothing.
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I have already done general google searches of the web on this and found nothing.
I would like to solve the problem with the Amazon videos, but would also like to be able to install what I want from the application installer without having Redhat denying me every move I make.
Thanks for your help in advance
P.S. Windows 10 is the type of nightmare you have after you've been food poisoned and lay in your bed sweating and feeling like you are gonna die
Responses
Hi David, nice to hear that you are moving towards Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not the best way to start out as a new Linux users if you plan to use it as a desktop system. Red Hat's is more server related. Why don't u try to to use a different distro, that is more Desktop related? Maybe fedora, ubuntu or something else. This would make your first linux experience a bit more comfortable and easier to use. Just check out distrowatch.com to get an idea of the different linux distros.
Greetings
Steven
Hi David,
Steven is right ... there are distributions out there, which are 'more easy' to getting started with. What you can do to install additional codecs on the system, is adding the EPEL and the RPM Fusion repositories to the software sources and install the codecs from there.
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpmsudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpmsudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum updatesudo yum install gstreamer1-libavsudo yum install gstreamer1-plugins-ugly
To use the widevine plugin, you can either download Google Chrome and install it via sudo yum localinstall <package-name>,
or install chromium from the EPEL repository via sudo yum install chromium and copy the widevine files from the downloaded and extracted Google Chrome package to the /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromium-plugins folder (create the folder before).
Regarding all the other questions you raised, you really need to learn some basic stuff, you'll find a lot of information on the internet.
Cheers :)
Christian
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
