On 16/06/15 14:27, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> On 16/06/15 14:20, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> On 16/06/15 12:18, JeremyBekka C wrote:
>>> Hi Jeremy,
>>>
>>> I have a question about the deprecated program hal. We like to
>>> stream videos from Amazon.com but we need hal installed in order to
>>> make it work. The Hal Debian wiki says that it is being deprecated
>>> and it is being replaced by udev (https://wiki.debian.org/hal).
>>> Since vdev is being written to replace udev, are there any plans to
>>> incorperate hal's functions into vdev or keep maintaining it
>>> seperaratly?
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you know what specific functions of hal you need? Hal's
>>> functionality got split between udisks/udisks2, upower, and udev some
>>> time ago. Things like device plug state, device properties, and device
>>> capabilities are now tracked by udev (in /run/udev) and accessed by
>>> libudev, for example. My goal for vdev is to be compatible with udev,
>>> so if you can use udev today, you should be able to use vdev when it's
>>> ready.
>>>
>> From what I remember it's flashplayer, and it uses hal to build or get
>> a GUID based on hardware ID's (ethernet macs, and other h/w identifiers)
>> which is required for the digital rights management to be able to lock
>> the content to that particular combination thus preventing MitMing the
>> content for aka Piracy...
>>
> From what I remember there was a bit of code spinning around called
> fake-hal that basically pretended to fake the data, but I never got it
> to work personally. It should be easy enough to recreate a working hal
> that uses the current facilities to present the data that flashplayer
> needs and make flashplugin-nonfree depend on it.
>
or this:
https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash
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Daniel Reurich
Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd.
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