Watching Amazon Prime video HD on ubuntu 20.04
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According to this forum, the following solution might work:
1) Install winehq-staging
2) Install Edge-dev: see this
3) Run Edge:
wine 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe'
4) Log in to amazon prime video using your newly installed MS Edge browser and HD could work
Let me know if this works....
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Sandbo over 1 year
I think it has been known for a good while that Amazon Prime Video is SD only on system running anything other than Windows and MAC: https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=GUX9FYHU5D8LC9EJ
Is there a way to work around this limit? It'd be a shame having to use a virtual machine running Windows (if it even works) to just watch Prime video.
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Sandbo over 3 yearsThanks for the instruction, I have also heard that wine works, but I haven't tried. I will give it a shot. Though, I really hope there is a more Linux way to solve it without turning back to a MS browser.
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ldias over 3 years@Sandbo Unfortunately this is Amazon's fault, not the linux developers. Reaching out to the Amazon Prime Video support staff and complaining about this issue could help..
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Sandbo over 3 yearsI fully understand, but I have seen there are already quite a lot of users having complained to Amazon. If they were to take any actions there would have been some. I could try to add my voice but likely they will leave out the small Linux desktop community after all.
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Herpes Free Engineer about 3 yearsdidn't work for me.
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ldias about 3 years@HerpesFreeEngineer Did you get edge running correctly with WINE and when you went to Prime Video it didn't show in HD?
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Meow over 2 yearsThis no longer works 😾