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Message #142925
[Bug 1371274] Re: Unable to use the widevine plugin with Chromium
Good news, I'm in active discussion with someone at netflix to change
their UserAgent detection and threat chromium as chrome and thus kill
the REDIRECT bug , almost there !
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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
Solution :
With the help from several people (hogliux for patch and saiarcot895
for PPA) , a PPA is available with this feature :
- https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-dev
- You need the binary widevine plugin plugin (2 files) :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-
browser/+bug/1371274/+attachment/4397708/+files/WidevineLinuxForChromium44.tar.gz
To be copied in /usr/lib/chromium
- Launch netflix.com and see if it works.
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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