I confirm that the procedure in a-ciccantelli's post solves the problem. I have just use this procedure to get Amazon Instant Videos working on my laptop running Ubuntu 13.10. I am a very happy camper!
A couple of comments/clarifications:
As also mentioned by others above, in step 2, there are actually two ways to do this:
1. Get the deb's from the 13.04 repository locations mentioned in a-ciccantelli's post, and install them using 'sudo dpkg -i <deb-filenames>'. -- but, this does not totally seem to work; it works as far as fixing the DRM problem and allowing you to watch DRM-protected videos, but causes a problem at startup as mentioned in muppet317 above.
2. The solution which seems to fix the DRM issue and not cause the problem at startup is to add an alternate repo, where hal is apparently still being maintained, to your list of apt repositories, then install hal more simply by just using apt-get:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hal
NOTE: I cannot take credit for this information; I found it in a post by 'noobninja' here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/36225...to-ubuntu-13-1. (I subsequently also noticed it in the subsequent comments above; doh! That's what I get for reading only the part of the thread that I thought I needed! Next time I'll read the whole thing).
In step 3, the commands shown above are a little bit mangled (missing spaces). The commands should actually be:
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information
/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
In step 4, you only have to execute the last command ('rm -rf ~/.adobe'). The two commands above that one are redundant and unnecssary, since they're just deleting lower-level directories that would also be deleted by the last command. So -- just do 'rm -rf ~/.adobe'.
Originally Posted by onefthemany
I made a clean install on my laptop and then installed hal... now I can watch 4oD and Demand 5, but only in Firefox... if in doubt clean it out
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