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Outline of my Amazon/Lovefilm Instant Video-on-Ubuntu solution
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Previous solution used Pipelight, which was much nicer. However, since Amazon ate Lovefilm, the player doesn't work with pipelight. So..
2 Profiles:
xbmc (XBMC session, auto login, no password)
lovefilm (Openbox session, no password)
Menu item in XBMC triggers session switch to Lovefilm (uses dm-tool)
On login, Lovefilm automatically launches Windows 7 VM in virtualbox, full screen, automatically logs in and runs Firefox fullscreen (or just loads saved state if there is one).
User watches stuff with silverlight. When finished, they close VirtualBox using "X" icon on pop-up menu bar.
When Virtualbox is closed, dm-tool is automatically invoked to return user to XBMC, and all remaining processes belonging to lovefilm are killed with pkill.
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slackner commented Mar 2, 2014

Why not continue using Pipelight? It works well even with Amazon Instant - at least when the version is up-to-date and when you pay attention to all the other remarks.

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I am watching Amazon Instant with pipelight while typing this and you most probably just need to delete your amazon instant cookies if opened their webpage without a user agent switcher to get it working.

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