2018-01-01, 00:34
If I have put this in the wrong place I'm sorry. Likewise if mentioning a certain addon breaches the rules, I'm also sorry. With regards to said addon however, I do have a fully paid subscription.
So, I decided that I would give building a Kodi box a go. Why not I thought, that old slimline PC will be fine.
Everything went well with the install. I cannot thank just one site for my success as I googled much information.
The box is nothing special, an all in one motherboard with 8Gig DDR2 and a Q9650 processor. In following advice, I used Fedora 27 Server in minimal installation, installed all the necessary bits and bobs and I have a working Kodi box. So far so good.
Now the aforementioned subscription is Amazon Prime. I obtained the Kodinerd and Sandman repos and was able to log into my account with no problems. From this poing on I am having problems. So far the only way I seem to be able to play Prime is in a browser, and it won't play full screen. I have tried chrome and firefox and neither will allow full screen. I even read up on kiosk mode which apparently gets rid of everything exept the video, but even this didn't work. Now I can play prime using my home PC full screen ( 1920 x 1080) with no problems at all. I'm embarrassed to say the home PC is a windoze box ( hides head in shame).
I've tried using sthe streaming option, but Kodi v17 (17.6 actually) apparently is not shipped with inputstream enabled. I spent this entire weekend back and forth between the kodi box and the home PC ( although I do ssh in via Mobaxterm when I can) trying different methods to get Prime to play full screen.
I'm reasonable au fait with Fedora linux, certainly not a professional, or advanced, and as such I can follow instructions as needed.
If anyone here can help, or point me in the right direction to get this working, I really would be grateful.
Thanks in advance
Steve
So, I decided that I would give building a Kodi box a go. Why not I thought, that old slimline PC will be fine.
Everything went well with the install. I cannot thank just one site for my success as I googled much information.
The box is nothing special, an all in one motherboard with 8Gig DDR2 and a Q9650 processor. In following advice, I used Fedora 27 Server in minimal installation, installed all the necessary bits and bobs and I have a working Kodi box. So far so good.
Now the aforementioned subscription is Amazon Prime. I obtained the Kodinerd and Sandman repos and was able to log into my account with no problems. From this poing on I am having problems. So far the only way I seem to be able to play Prime is in a browser, and it won't play full screen. I have tried chrome and firefox and neither will allow full screen. I even read up on kiosk mode which apparently gets rid of everything exept the video, but even this didn't work. Now I can play prime using my home PC full screen ( 1920 x 1080) with no problems at all. I'm embarrassed to say the home PC is a windoze box ( hides head in shame).
I've tried using sthe streaming option, but Kodi v17 (17.6 actually) apparently is not shipped with inputstream enabled. I spent this entire weekend back and forth between the kodi box and the home PC ( although I do ssh in via Mobaxterm when I can) trying different methods to get Prime to play full screen.
I'm reasonable au fait with Fedora linux, certainly not a professional, or advanced, and as such I can follow instructions as needed.
If anyone here can help, or point me in the right direction to get this working, I really would be grateful.
Thanks in advance
Steve