Amazon Prime Video app not working

[magnifico]

[tmihai20]

I beg to differ a little. Amazon has all the interest in the world for people to use their Fire tablets, their TVs and so on in order to control streaming. This is why they do not offer support or do not care if some customers cannot run Amazon Prime Video on other devices then the Amazon devices.

As for Netflix, they are not interested in giving the recognition to small vendors like HiMedia. I had a Beelink device before and Beelink tried to get their TV boxes Netflix certified. Netflix replied they do not care about it and and are not interested to work with them.

We can be as enraged as we can, but the market is not a free one and there are constraints. It is like filing a bug for someone not interested in fixing it. Better not file the bug then.

[magnifico]

Agree.

But beelink. REALLY? They have a very horrible history in caring for their devices.
Most devices only got 1 year with firmware support, usually they never fixed the bugs the community collected.

I know that because I once ways member of such a group with direct contact to a developer.
Some day this guy just disappeared and much later we got the notice he got fired. 

[tmihai20]

I did not know much about TV boxes before I bought Beelink. It does not matter that Beelink wrote Netflix, it just shows Netflix's strategy. Beelink are still selling a lot of devices, although their software support is indeed very bad.

On-topic: we should maybe repeatedly contact Amazon to make the app work on a lot more devices. It may be the only way we can have it working on Q10 Pro.

[pcristi]

Apply this patch to get Amazon Prime Video app working and play on SD resolution, HD/4K resolution are another story...

[caseyjones]

Why watch it is SD??
This is the same deal with Netflix.. SD only.  And that is what they claim is "SD" which AFAIC is less than 360h, probably 240h horizontal resolution (US standards).

720h looks more like 480h (DVD resolution) and 1800p is more like 720p anytime I have seen any of these feeds on approved devices.

[magnifico]

[caseyjones]

Ten feet away from a 100" screen.
I feel sorry for your eyes. 

If you think you can view either 'pay' service on a unauthorized device in the full resolution they offer, you got another thing coming.

[pranjandas]

Apply this patch to get Amazon Prime Video app working and play on SD resolution, HD/4K resolution are another story...

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pcristi rocks Indeed!

Call it a miracle. I applied this patch in my Q10 Pro and Prime Video started working, hold on!, not only in SD quality, its HD as well. Checked with the output from the AVR which shows as 1920X1080p, HDMI input is RAW :-)

Awesome Patch by pcristi :-)

[Captain John Yossarian]

Here, on Q10, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix run fine basically, if not for the sound, which is Stereo only :-(

[alec76]

[quote author=pcristi link=topic=2569.msg22738#msg22738 date

Call it a miracle. I applied this patch in my Q10 Pro and Prime Video started working, hold on!, not only in SD quality, its HD as well. Checked with the output from the AVR which shows as 1920X1080p, HDMI input is RAW :-)

It is upscale to 1080 , not a real thing.
 

[alec76]

[caseyjones]

[quote author=pcristi link=topic=2569.msg22738#msg22738 date
Call it a miracle. I applied this patch in my Q10 Pro and Prime Video started working, hold on!, not only in SD quality, its HD as well. Checked with the output from the AVR which shows as 1920X1080p, HDMI input is RAW :-)

It is upscale to 1080 , not a real thing.

Are you sure about this??
We have people here that think if it says 1080p it actually is.

[caseyjones]

why would I want to watch NETFLIX and AMAZON VIDEO in SD anyway!?

You would be surprised on just how many have NO clue of thew quality/resolution level they are watching including ones with 100" front projectors . 

[Mount81]

These media players always output on the resolution that you have set in the Display settings, so if you have set 1080p than even if the source video is SD or 720p it will be upscalled to 1080p.  As there's no auto resolution switching on Android media players.

why would I want to watch NETFLIX and AMAZON VIDEO in SD anyway!?

+1, I'm always incomprehended regarding these threads sticking to Netflix and Amazon. Maybe HiMedia (and the resellers) should communicate more clearly that it will only support SD quality, but other than that what's the good in watching the streams in SD on a 200$ up-to-date media player anyway?   

Not to argue, just for the record.