Widevine

adams

I saw somebody asking about widevine. A script to extract armhf widevine and flash from chromeos images can be found here https://help.vivaldi.com/article/raspberry-pi/ .

Lakotaubp

@adams I have moved this as the link refers to Raspberry pi. Please try and find the correct forum section or post you are replying to. There is a search function on the forum and you can add tags to your post to make it easier for others to find what they need (I'm as guilty as anyone for forgetting these at time). It all helps

adams

@lakotaubp Somebody asked in the Q&A about widevine in the Ubuntu Touch bowser. The answer was they were having difficulty finding an armhf version. The link I posted has instructions for extracting an armhf version. It is on a raspberry pi page, but it is generic widevine plugin.

advocatux

@adams hi, have you tested that version? Does it really work? I'm asking because @mariogrip explained some days ago that Google has changed something related to the keys recently, and all the "widevines" that he has tried have failed to run.

Edit: ah, I'm seeing that that script uses an armhf ChromeOS recovery image as base to do the trick. Yep, that maybe could work

dobey

It really doesn't matter too much, because we cannot redistribute it. So unless there is an easy and reliable way, to get the official build from the official source (a link to a widevine binary download directly), I don't think there's any way we can even make an easy install option for it.

advocatux

@dobey they're doing this https://gist.github.com/ruario/19a28d98d29d34ec9b184c42e5f8bf29

dobey

@advocatux
# Fetch the recovery image (2Gb+ on disk after download)

Doesn't seem like a great plan.

advocatux

@dobey right XD

adams

@advocatux I haven't used it, but I believe the technique has been widely used. I think Kodi does something similar. Perhaps @ebet14 can test since they asked a question about widevine?

As @dobey says, distributing a copy of widevine seems problematic, but strangely debian appear to have a package doing just that.

dobey

@adams said in Widevine:

As @dobey says, distributing a copy of widevine seems problematic, but strangely debian appear to have a package doing just that.

I doubt Debian is actually distributing widevine. I don't see any available package for it on Ubuntu 18.04 at least. At most, it's probably in the non-free repository, and is simply a download and extract script, similar to how the flashplugin-installer package works, which downloads the official tarball from Adobe, unpacks into a temporary directory, then copies the plug-in to the destination location. It probably also only does this on x86 for widevine, which likely doesn't require downloading a 2GB ChromeOS recovery, and then extracting from there.