Watching Amazon Prime video HD on ubuntu 20.04

24,270

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....

Share:
24,270

Related videos on Youtube

Sandbo
Author by

Sandbo

We do what we must, because we can. -GlaDOS

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

  • Sandbo
    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.

  • Sandbo
    Sandbo over 3 years
    Thanks 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.
  • ldias
    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..
  • Sandbo
    Sandbo over 3 years
    I 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.
  • Herpes Free Engineer
    Herpes Free Engineer about 3 years
    didn't work for me.
  • ldias
    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?
  • Meow
    Meow over 2 years
    This no longer works 😾