Bug#921738: chromium-widevine: Widevine does not work with Netflix
tags 921738 + wontfix
bye
This package is *not* widevine. It is the *support* for the legacy
widevine cdm. You still have to download the widevine cdm from
widevine.com/google. Google prohibits its distribution without a
license:
> "Google Inc. and its affiliates ("Google") own all legal right, title and
> interest in and to the content decryption module software ("Software") and
> related documentation, including any intellectual property rights in the
> Software. You may not use, modify, sell, or otherwise distribute the Software
> without a separate license agreement with Google. The Software is not open
> source software.
>
> If you are interested in licensing the Software, please contact
> widev...@google.com.
This package was removed from newer releases of the chromium package.
The new widevine cdm module (4.10.1196.0) will be loaded directly by
the browser from /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so when you have a
version installed which isn't affected by
https://bugs.debian.org/916058 - you still have to get
libwidevinecdm.so
If you are interested in automatically installing this plugin then
please use the approach by
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pepperflashplugin-nonfree and upload
the download helper to contrib/web.
As far as I know, Mozilla has a license to use widevine but not a
license to distribute it. Steam/Valve maybe has a license to
redistribute it (I could be wrong but I thought that it was in their
steam runtime) and the chrome team definitely has a license to
distribute it.
You have to contact netflix directly about their wrong help message
Bug#921738: chromium-widevine: Widevine does not work with Netflix
Package: chromium-widevine Version: 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Netflix keeps saying: Your web browser is missing a digital rights component. Go to chrome://components and under WidevineCdm, click Check for update. I have installed the chromium-widevine package, together with the correct version of chromium, and still complains about the missing plugin. To solve it, I need to download a binary blob from Google: wget https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip unzip 1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip sudo mkdir /usr/lib/chromium sudo mv libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib/chromium sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so Looks like I'm not the only one having this problem: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/385880/using-the-chromium-widevine- debian-package Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (750, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.20-grsec-botto+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium-widevine depends on: ii chromium 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 chromium-widevine recommends no packages. chromium-widevine suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
