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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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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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  • 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.
    – Sandbo
    May 19, 2020 at 1:57
  • @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..
    – ldias
    May 19, 2020 at 13:11
  • 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.
    – Sandbo
    May 20, 2020 at 5:15
  • didn't work for me.
    – Herpes Free Engineer
    Oct 29, 2020 at 21:28
  • @HerpesFreeEngineer Did you get edge running correctly with WINE and when you went to Prime Video it didn't show in HD?
    – ldias
    Oct 30, 2020 at 22:54
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I've been searching a solution for a while, and this method once worked for me:

  1. Install Wine staging version 6.4 with sudo apt install winehq-staging=6.4

  1. Download Chrome 86.0.4240.75 Official build 64-bit Portable (can be found here: https://www.filepuma.com/download/google_chrome_64bit_86.0.4240.75-26781/) and run the .exe with wine

  2. Access and log in in Prime Video and the HD streaming should work

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