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

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              dobey
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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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                ComLarsic @dobey
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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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                  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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                    kugiigi
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                    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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                      CiberSheep
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                      This might be useful:
                      http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/w/widevine/

                      Another planet, another time, another universe!

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                        poVoq @kugiigi
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                        @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.

                        Fairphone 5 (waiting for port)

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                          pavelprosto @ComLarsic
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                          @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

                          Your donations help me to continue programming free and openSource application development https://liberapay.com/pavelprosto/

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