Porting QTWebflix(Netflix app) to Ubuntu touch?

ComLarsic

hello everyone, I recebtly stumbled across this project named QTWebflix.
it allows you to watch netflix and other streaming services on Linux.
it seems to be viable for Ubuntu touch, it uses Qt+QtWebengine and qmake.

I was planning on porting it myself but I have no idea where to start, is there a guide somewhere on how to build Qt+qmake applications to Ubuntu touch?

any help is greatly appriciated

AppLee

@ComLarsic

Hello,

I'd say, have a look at clickable it makes compilation for UT easier.
You can check those links, it might help or point in the right direction :

http://clickable.bhdouglass.com/en/latest/install.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehqlwRNrfO0&feature=youtu.be

http://docs.ubports.com/fr/latest/appdev/guides/dependencies.html

ComLarsic

@AppLee ah thanks! I will have a look at those!

dobey

Your core problem here is, and will remain, the fact that there is no generally available build of Widevine plug-in for ARM. The only way to get Widevine on ARM is from the ChromeOS image, which is a 2+GB download from which you need to extract a single tiny binary file.

It is not legal to redistribute the Widevine plug-in yourself, either.

ComLarsic

@dobey there seems to be a pre-compiled version of widevine-chromium for the raspberry pi. would it be legal to use the widevine from that or is that being illegally hosted?

dobey

@ComLarsic I would expect if that does have widevine it is indeed not usable, given it's not from https://www.widevine.com/
Also those are really old builds of chromium (which itself doesn't come with widevine anyway, so that's confusing too).

Basically, if it was acceptable to distribute the Widevine plug-in in this manner, then we'd already have it anyway, because Qt/Debian/Ubuntu/etc… would provide it too.

kugiigi

I'd still take it even if the user has to manually download and extract the needed . It's better than nothing
Marius teased netfilx on Morph though. Maybe he knows something

CiberSheep

This might be useful:
http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/widevine/

poVoq

@kugiigi said in Porting QTWebflix(Netflix app) to Ubuntu touch?:

I'd still take it even if the user has to manually download and extract the needed . It's better than nothing
Marius teased netfilx on Morph though. Maybe he knows something

Manjaro has a special Docker container for it. I don't think this will work on older Android Linux Kernels, but a similar container like Libertine might be possible to build.

pavelprosto

@comlarsic A very cool idea!
Kodi plugins work in Python, you can take authorization algorithms and program work from them
https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix
You can use the Morph browser component to play the video.
You can see how this is implemented by me
https://github.com/pavelprosto94/uvideo
The video player code itself is here https://github.com/pavelprosto94/uvideo/blob/main/src/index.html