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[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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