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

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2017 22:25:23 CEST Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 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.
> 
Btw. For all the details see http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/03/netflix-qt-webengine-5-7/

I mentions both libraries, and how to get Chrome to download them and where to 
find them. Though for end-users just getting Chrome to download them is 
enough, QtWebEngine will look for them where Chrome puts them.

'Allan