Porting QTWebflix(Netflix app) to Ubuntu touch?
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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
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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
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@AppLee ah thanks! I will have a look at those!
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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.
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@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?
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@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.
