Can't watch Amazon Prime
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@rafiki There is also the possibility that your hardware acceleration setting is not compatible with running Vivaldi and Amazon Prime videos on your particular machine. You may have to disable HWA or ignore Chromium's blacklist to get it to run.
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@rafiki Hm. Wonder why I can run it and you can't? You are on Windows 10, yes?
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@ayespy Do you watch via https://www.primevideo.com or via the amazon site? Those deliver different formats even for prime content ...
Can't check by myself though because for primevideo I'd need to use a VPN with exit point preferably in the USA.
Other than that: W10 !== W10
There are at least 4 different W10 update/upgrade streams with different media support, from "untargeted", aka the slowest stream with about 3 to 9 month delay to the normal consumer stream, to "I want the latest guinea pig builds". -
Since I'm still watching the thread, allow me to debunk a part of this:
@ayespy said in Can't watch Amazon Prime:
Amazon Prime is something of a special case, because it sniffs browsers and seems to try to send bad code to Vivaldi.
I already tried removing Vivaldi "triggers" from UA and the like, but even though it's detected as Chrome, Chrome works, Vivaldi doesn't. And I mean, I wouldn't mind if I was told "you need to do these extra steps, and install the codecs here and whatever" or just "due to money it won't ever happen", but it's just the FUD I don't like.
And yes, I'm on PrimeVideo.
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Few months ago, I too wasn't able to watch certain Amazon videos. I found this topic and didn't try again until today. Don't know what exactly fixed it for me, but it does seem to work here - for now. Not sure, if it works for everything though...
Installed today's Vivaldi version 2.0.1309.37 (x64). Tried it on Bosch, Season 4 Episode 1. Seasons 1 to 3 have always worked for me, Season 4 didn't until now.
@rafiki: Did you have a chance to try it today, with version 2.0.1309.37 or up?
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Sorry for wasting your time then
I tried some old versions of Vivaldi (1.15 and 1.16) as standalone and strangely it now works with those versions as well. No error 7017 anymore, as I used to get on Bosch S4 with those versions.
Whatever fixed it for me, it does not seem to be Vivaldi.
Either Amazon did something (location: AT/DE) or some updates (Win 7, Nvidia gc driver?) made it work for me.
Hardware is still the same and I can't remember installing/uninstalling any significant software... -
@rafiki For the Surface, you can download and install the Windows Codec Pack that does not come with that version of Win10.
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@rafiki Win10 versions of the same number might not be the same. One can be Win10M, and it won't have the codecs. It's even possible (if unlikely) that the thinkpad is also Win10M.
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@rafiki I don't actually know. I just know the difference exists.
You can try the codec pack. It can't hurt anything. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=507
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@rafiki Current version is 1809, BTW.
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FWIW, Prime works just fine for me. Vivaldi 2.0 on Windows 10 1809. Both 64 bit.
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@rafiki But if you ask, it might find it. That's what I did.
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@rafiki Ask the system, under All Settings/Update & Security, to look for updates. It will say when you first look at the page, "we checked today, silly" but you say "Check for Updates," and bam. The new ver. that did not roll out to you yet, is found.
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I updated Windows, but I am still on 1803
Specs: AMD A10-6800K, 8 Gb on Win 10 64-bit build 17134.320 • Snapshot 2.1.1322.4 (64-bit)
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@rafiki It's not just phones. It's all mobile platforms - tablets, etc.
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@rafiki I understand. But there are all ranges of Thinkpads. They go as low and limited as a 10" netbook as I recall (1.6GHz Intel N270 Atom Processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB HDD), and I did not recall that 10M is only for 9" and smaller. You just said Thinkpad, and that covers a HUGE range. Like I said, I thought it unlikely.
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@rafiki said in Can't watch Amazon Prime:
Which country? Did it also work on 1803?
USA, and yes. Even worked on 1.13 if I remember right.
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@rafiki It's a duplicate of master bug VB-24319, which is confirmed, assigned, and in progress. All notes and references are under 24319, and 40404 is closed as a duplicate.
It's a moving target. Developers have been working on it since Dec 2016, and have solved it for most or all platforms more than once, only to have Amazon or Chromium change something and break it again. One of the persistent problems is that Prime feeds a different data stream to Vivaldi from what it feeds to other browsers. Prime also feeds different data streams to different geographic areas. For instance, what is fed in the US is different from what is fed in Germany, is different from France, is different from Japan. It's a migraine that won't go away.
Work is ongoing. In the meantime, they've managed to field solutions that work on most boxes in most locales. At least for now.
I'm answering this here, though bug updates actually have a topic of their own, because it is specifically on-topic to this thread. I'm probably also putting out more data than I'm technically supposed to (NDA and all) probably, but keeping it general enough that no proprietary info is leaking. Hopefully this fills in some gaps.
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@rafiki Amazon sniffs browsers and sends different streams to different browsers. The stream they send to Vivaldi is not compatible in every region ('cuz it's different in different regions) with the solutions Vivaldi relies on, which are open source and on-board OS codecs. Chrome, for instance, pays millions for licensing in order to bundle their own proprietary codec pack with the browser - a strategy which Vivaldi cannot afford. Edge and Firefox do the same thing, and I'm not 100% sure what Opera does.
If Amazon Spain truly will reach out to Vivaldi in Oslo, that will be a first. And will be welcome.
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Amazon Prime surprised me by playing when set to Opera 55.
now that's strange...