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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:11 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Chromium 71 and widevine. Netflix not working. Reply with quote

Hi all,

I'm not able to watch Netflix (actually, any protected content) with chromium and chrome-binary-plugins. At least, since version 69.

Widevine use flag is enabled for both packages but the component does not appear at chrome://components/

Some useful (I hope) information:

Versions:
Code:

Sat Dec  8 12:38:10 2018 >>> www-client/chromium-71.0.3578.80
       merge time: 1 hour, 39 minutes and 49 seconds.
Thu Dec 13 09:32:52 2018 >>> www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-71.0.3578.98
       merge time: 14 seconds.


USE Flags:
Code:

root@desktop : /usr/lib64/chromium
$ equery uses chromium
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for www-client/chromium-71.0.3578.80:
 U I
 - - component-build    : Split build into more shared libraries to speed up linking. Mostly intended for debugging and development, NOT
                          RECOMMENDED for general use.
 + + cups               : Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
 + + custom-cflags      : Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported)
 + + gnome-keyring      : Enable support for storing passwords via gnome-keyring
 + + hangouts           : Enable support for Google Hangouts features such as screen sharing
 + + jumbo-build        : Combine source files to speed up build process.
 + + kerberos           : Add kerberos support
 + + l10n_am            : Amharic
 + + l10n_ar            : Arabic
 + + l10n_bg            : Bulgarian
 + + l10n_bn            : Bengali
 + + l10n_ca            : Catalan
 + + l10n_cs            : Czech
 + + l10n_da            : Danish
 + + l10n_de            : German
 + + l10n_el            : Modern Greek
 + + l10n_en-GB         : English (United Kingdom)
 + + l10n_es            : Spanish
 + + l10n_es-419        : Spanish (Latin America)
 + + l10n_et            : Estonian
 + + l10n_fa            : Persian
 + + l10n_fi            : Finnish
 + + l10n_fil           : Filipino
 + + l10n_fr            : French
 + + l10n_gu            : Gujarati
 + + l10n_he            : Hebrew
 + + l10n_hi            : Hindi
 + + l10n_hr            : Croatian
 + + l10n_hu            : Hungarian
 + + l10n_id            : Indonesian
 + + l10n_it            : Italian
 + + l10n_ja            : Japanese
 + + l10n_kn            : Kannada
 + + l10n_ko            : Korean
 + + l10n_lt            : Lithuanian
 + + l10n_lv            : Latvian
 + + l10n_ml            : Malayalam
 + + l10n_mr            : Marathi
 + + l10n_ms            : Malay (macrolanguage)
 + + l10n_nb            : Norwegian Bokmål
 + + l10n_nl            : Dutch
 + + l10n_pl            : Polish
 + + l10n_pt-BR         : Portuguese (Brazil)
 + + l10n_pt-PT         : Portuguese (Portugal)
 + + l10n_ro            : Romanian
 + + l10n_ru            : Russian
 + + l10n_sk            : Slovak
 + + l10n_sl            : Slovenian
 + + l10n_sr            : Serbian
 + + l10n_sv            : Swedish
 + + l10n_sw            : Swahili (macrolanguage)
 + + l10n_ta            : Tamil
 + + l10n_te            : Telugu
 + + l10n_th            : Thai
 + + l10n_tr            : Turkish
 + + l10n_uk            : Ukrainian
 + + l10n_vi            : Vietnamese
 + + l10n_zh-CN         : Chinese (China)
 + + l10n_zh-TW         : Chinese (Taiwan)
 + + proprietary-codecs : Enable proprietary codecs like H.264, MP3
 + + pulseaudio         : Add support for PulseAudio sound server
 + + suid               : Build the SUID sandbox, which is only needed on CONFIG_USER_NS=n kernels
 - - system-ffmpeg      : Use system ffmpeg instead of the bundled one
 - - system-icu         : Use system icu instead of the bundled one
 - - system-libvpx      : Use system libvpx instead of the bundled one
 - - tcmalloc           : Use bundled tcmalloc instead of system malloc
 + + widevine           : Unsupported closed-source DRM capability (required by Netflix VOD)
root@desktop : /usr/lib64/chromium
$ equery uses chrome-binary-plugins
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-71.0.3578.98:
 U I
 + + widevine : Install the Widevine DRM library


NOTE: While writting this post I noticed that both versions differs. There is a chromium version which match the binary-plugins one, but in both cases I'm using stable channel. Could be that the problem?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I cannot really solve your problem, but ...
  • neither do I see widevine under chrome://components/
  • I even had major version mismatches of chromium and its binary plugins; video streams still played fine
I have to disable uMatrix extension for video streaming sites. It just shows a gray page instead of the netflix title(video). You got such a blocker extension?

Would you mind to elaborate a bit what is happening on your end?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

geki wrote:

Would you mind to elaborate a bit what is happening on your end?


I use uBlock but I did it before, when play video worked on previous versions of chromium. I can login and navigate on Netflix, but I can't reproduce any video. The errors says "Missing component" and the error code M7701-1003. I'll try to build the same versions of both packages later and check again. I'll back to tell you the result.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jesus.rodriguez wrote:
I'll try to build the same versions of both packages later and check again. I'll back to tell you the result.


Unlucky. It is not a "version conflict".
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can confirm that with =www-client/chromium-71.0.3578.80 installed, I am unable to view Netflix content. The widevinecdm plugin does not even get listed in chrome://components

Furthermore, reverting to the previous version of chromium, there are no problems with Netflix content

I have masked any later version of Chromium until upstream care to fix it. Upstream have broken it before. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1080874-start-0.html
Code:

echo ">=www-client/chromium-71.0.3578.80" >> /etc/portage/package.mask/chromium
echo ">=www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-71.0.3578.98" >> /etc/portage/package.mask/chromium
emerge -1av =www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110


Anyhow, I have a working setup with the following installed

johnh@imac ~ $ eix -c chromium
[?] www-client/chromium (70.0.3538.110@12/14/18 -> ??): Open-source version of Google Chrome web browser

johnh@imac ~ $ eix -c chrome-binary-plugin
[?] www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins (71.0.3578.80(stable)@12/13/18 -> ??): Binary plugins from Google Chrome for use in Chromium
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JuNix wrote:

Furthermore, reverting to the previous version of chromium, there are no problems with Netflix content


Thank you! I'll try later.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JuNix wrote:

I have masked any later version of Chromium until upstream care to fix it. Upstream have broken it before. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1080874-start-0.html
Code:

echo ">=www-client/chromium-71.0.3578.80" >> /etc/portage/package.mask/chromium
echo ">=www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins-71.0.3578.98" >> /etc/portage/package.mask/chromium
emerge -1av =www-client/chromium-70.0.3538.110



Shit :cry:
Code:

$ ll /usr/portage/www-client/chromium/
total 140
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8977 Jan  5 05:39 Manifest
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21665 Dec  7 21:39 chromium-71.0.3578.80.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21667 Jan  5 05:39 chromium-71.0.3578.98.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21676 Nov 24 19:09 chromium-72.0.3595.2.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21748 Jan  5 05:39 chromium-72.0.3626.28-r1.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21747 Dec 26 19:39 chromium-72.0.3626.28.ebuild
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Dec 31 09:06 files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1418 Jan  6  2018 metadata.xml

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dang - it's gone from my box too.... I guess my last sync got rid of the old stuff

I think you can grab a copy of the old chromium-70.0.3538.110.ebuild at https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/chromium/chromium-70.0.3538.110.ebuild?id=a1825582f83d51485e1ed6e668fc1f55a5814a56
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JuNix wrote:
Dang - it's gone from my box too.... I guess my last sync got rid of the old stuff

I think you can grab a copy of the old chromium-70.0.3538.110.ebuild at https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/chromium/chromium-70.0.3538.110.ebuild?id=a1825582f83d51485e1ed6e668fc1f55a5814a56


I think I'll wait for the next stable version of chrome and pray. Thanks anyway!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That thing takes ALL DAY to compile as well!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Chromium 71 and widevine. Netflix not working. Reply with quote

Happy to tell you that after upgrate to 72.0.3626.96, Netflix is working again. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the heads-up. I will upgrade! :-)
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI Slimjet has an archive of old chrome binaries, I use them to get the right version of widevine working for qtwebkit ever since I kicked chromium to curb for too many of the problems above.
There is also this drm test site that really helps speed up testing.
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