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ryanxboxpro
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 Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 6:33 pm Post subject: Widevine and Netflix doesn't work on anything but Firefox? |
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So, I watch a lot of Netflix, and it works fine in Firefox. However, I prefer Falkon or Vivaldi, but Widevine seems to be missing from both browsers. Vivaldi has an option to enable Widevine and I have it checked, but no luck. Is there a package or custom version I can build of either that has Widevine included?
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Vivaldi is a proprietary browser, so nobody but themselves can fix it.
Falkon will never be allowed to use Widevine, because Google owns Widevine.
Your choices for this type of content consumption are Firefox, Chrome, or ThePirateBay. |
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ryanxboxpro
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad to say that I got Vivaldi to play nice with Netflix, but Falkon is still a no-go with methods that worked when I was still using KDE Neon and Manjaro.
I found this GitHub page which describes how to manually configure Vivaldi for Widevine. In short, they provide a script that grabs "libwidevinecdm.so" and installs it into "/opt/google/chrome". From there, you have to symlink the library file like this:
| Code: | | sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdm.so |
Note: I do not actually have Chromium merged into my system. I don't know what this will do to a system that has Chromium merged, and I also have no idea what a Chromium update would do. As far as I can tell, the guide says to symlink it here because some apps and browsers look for libraries from other apps, like Chromium.
To be sure it would work, I symlinked it into every directory that seemed reasonable. For non-Debian based distros, the path would be:
| Code: | | /usr/lib64/chromium/lib/libwidevinecdm.so |
But again, I symlinked it to other directories to be certain it could be found anywhere.
The exact steps I did:
1. Download the ZIP of the files from the Github page. Extract them, mark the provided script as executable, and run it as root.
2. Do "sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdm.so".
3. Do "sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdm.so"
4. Do "sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib64/chromium/lib/"
5. Do "sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib32/chromium/lib/"
6. Do "sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib64/chromium/lib/libwidevinecdm.so"
7. Do "sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib32/chromium/lib/libwidevinecdm.so"
8. If you do not set Vivaldi to clear cookies upon exit, clear them and restart Vivaldi before you attempt to watch Netflix. According to the page, | Quote: | | If you have failed to play videos once, then Netflix stores information about this in a cookie and you won't be able to play videos, even once your system is now correctly configured. |
9. This seems to work. Go enjoy some Netflix! 
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| Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 11:12 am Post subject: |
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I think it should still be possible with Qt WebEngine (Falkon) as well. I don't know for sure about Netflix, but I did set it up for something similar, for someone else.
At least in theory, all one should need is 'www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins' and 'dev-qt/qtwebengine[-bindist]', though older version of the plugin(s) (and downloading it outside Gentoo) may be required.
See [SOLVED] No netflix after upgrade to qtwebengine-5.11.1 for more details on how I got on to the working path.
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Ralphred
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The widevine libs from https://www.slimjet.com/chrome/download-chrome.php?file=lnx%2Fchrome64_66.0.3359.181.deb work with Falkon (I assume other qtwebkit stuff too).
Just because testing this stuff requires loads of browser restarts, I use https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm it's much quicker than messing with Netflix each time.
This is an excerpt from my ebuild that does the symlinking | Code: | dosym ../chromium/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdm.so
dosym ../chromium/libwidevinecdmadapter.so /usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdmadapter.so |
There is some disparate documentation about pointing Falkon to other plugin locations, but I found this to be a wild goose chase, and stracing the binary showed it never actually looked in a different location.
As a PoI, I think it's the point in time when the plugin switched from two .so libs to one that Falkon started to falter.
The above is currently working with dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.212 and www-client/falkon-3.1.0 |
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Chiitoo
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It looks like with Qt 5.12.3 going "stable", DRM content might once again work just by installing packages, without any manual meddling.
Tested with:
- www-client/falkon-3.1.0-r1
- dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.12.3
- www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-74.0.3729.169
Don't know about 'dev-qt/qtwebkit'.
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