[Interest] Do I need widevinecdmadapter.so to watch Netflix, Prime etc.?

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Thu Oct 5 22:25:23 CEST 2017


On Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2017 21:45:34 CEST Jan Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am on Archlinux.
> We have packages in AUR which should provide widevine, one of them
> especially for
> [qt5-webengine](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt5-webengine-widevine/)
> . Generally they get the [widevine
> component](https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip) and
> copy the content (libwidevinecdm.so) to / usr/lib/chromium. So far so
> good...
> If i have chromium installed alongside e.g. Qupzilla i can watch netflix
> with qupzilla very well. but if i remove chromium i ran in issues:
> widevine- component not found.
> So, with removing chromium i also remove libwidevinecdm**adapter**.so from /
> usr/lib/chromium.
> I searched the web and contacted the maintainer, but no clear statement.
> I guess qt5-webengine needs both **libwidevinecdmadapter.so and
> libwidevinecdm.so** to work properly.
> 
> Can someone of the devs please confirm...
> 
You you need both. One is just a plugin wrapper for the other. So
libwidevinecdmadapter.so is what Chrome and QtWebEngine talks to, the PPAPI 
plugin, but libwidevinecdm.so is the shared library with all the crucial DRM 
functionality.

\Allan



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