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[Chad Miller <chad.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Making chromium work with an outside widevine seems straightforward enough.
I'll see if I can add it to the next chromium update.


On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Ekimia <contact@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi jeroen,
>
> yes I saw that few days ago with 43.0.2357.45 ? I'm investigating.
>
> I confirmes it worked like a charm on beta PPA just before.
>
> You confirm that widevine does not even show in your plugins list ?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371274
>
> Title:
>   Unable to use the widevine plugin with Chromium
>
> Status in Chromium Browser:
>   Unknown
> Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   Chromium is unable to use the widevine component from google chrome :
>   libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so
>
>   How to reproduce :
>
>   - copy the 2 files the chrome archive in /usr/lib/chromium-browser
>   - check chrome://components/
>   - Widevine does not appear
>
>   it seems widevine support is only activated when branding=chrome
>
>   as seen in
>
>
>
> https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp
>
>   Widevine support would enable EME playing such as Netflix
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
>   Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
>   Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Thu Sep 18 21:11:17 2014
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-02 (350 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64
> (20130925.1)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=fr_FR
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: chromium-browser
>   SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type:
> 'system-image-cli'
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-31 (109 days ago)
>   modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
>   mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-06-01T14:14:23.245932
>
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371274

Title:
  Unable to use the widevine plugin with Chromium

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Chromium is unable to use the widevine component from google chrome :
  libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so

  How to reproduce :

  - copy the 2 files the chrome archive in /usr/lib/chromium-browser
  - check chrome://components/
  - Widevine does not appear

  it seems widevine support is only activated when branding=chrome

  as seen in

  
  https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp

  Widevine support would enable EME playing such as Netflix

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 18 21:11:17 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-02 (350 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'system-image-cli'
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-31 (109 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-06-01T14:14:23.245932

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