Widevine support

[rahul-kurup]

Hey do you have future plans to implement widevine support (or a workaround of sorts) so that we can play Netflix/Prime Video directly in Chromium.

[Joshua-Riek]

I have not heard of widevine before, but I will look at it. Being able to stream videos on a platform like Netflix would be awesome.

[ferrellsl]

It seems to be hit and miss. I can play Widevine videos on some sites and not on others. For example, this site works fine: https://www.theoplayer.com/theoplayer-drm-aes-128-encryption

And some sites play DRM protected videos but they have artifacts and others say that I don't have a supported key system when I try to play them.

I don't have NetFlix but let me see what kind of errors get thrown when I try to play something from Amazon Prime and get back to you.

[ferrellsl]

Yep, I get an error about WidevineCDM missing.

[rahul-kurup]

@Joshua-Riek Did u get a chance to check this out?

[Joshua-Riek]

I have not yet, I have been busy with work and testing out some new GPU drivers and a more recent chromium version on the opi5. Ill be able to take a closer look this Friday.

[rahul-kurup]

Oh great. I'm trying some workarounds for this. If it works I'll post an update here.

[rahul-kurup]

Spotify (open.spotify.com) also doesn't load cuz of DRM issue :(

[Joshua-Riek]

I have been looking into this and have had no luck so far.

[rahul-kurup]

https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/widevine/

These are the widevine packages for raspberry os. Not sure whether they can be reverse engineered for OrangePi

[Joshua-Riek]

Widevine has arrived on the Rock 5B and should also be able to work on the Orange Pi 5. I will test this out when I have time. https://youtu.be/QwyRgisFe5Q

[Joshua-Riek]

Spotify and Amazon Prime video working!

[ironiris]

WOW

[Joshua-Riek]

Netflix does not work, but it's incredible to see progress!

[rahul-kurup]

Netflix does not work, but it's incredible to see progress!

For Netflix, this can be done:

Source: https://forum.radxa.com/t/lets-get-widevine-working/15391/26

[rahul-kurup]

Can you share the commands you executed to enable this on your system, I'd like to try it; before the next release

[rahul-kurup]

@Joshua-Riek Can you add this in the next release, if possible?

[Joshua-Riek]

Yes, I will be adding it in the next release!

[nrpetonr]

use this script followed by browser spoofing, to fix the problem with drm sources, even on 24.04. enjoy...

[slashxzero]

But which version should I use?
thank you.

[nrpetonr]

not sure what u mean by your question