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    Porting QTWebflix(Netflix app) to Ubuntu touch?

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      ComLarsic last edited by 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

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        AppLee @ComLarsic last edited by

        @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

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          ComLarsic @AppLee last edited by

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

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            dobey last edited by

            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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              ComLarsic @dobey last edited by

              @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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                dobey @ComLarsic last edited by 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.

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                  WhitneyFranklin last edited by

                  our core problem here is, and will remain, the fact that there is no generally available build of Widevine plug-in for ARM.

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                    kugiigi last edited by

                    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 😃

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