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https://github.com/evangelions/chromium-widevine
How to install Widevine on Chromium on Arch Linux; how to watch Netflix on Chromium Arch Linux
https://github.com/evangelions/chromium-widevine
arch-linux chrome chromium digital-rights-management drm google-chrome linux privacy proprietary ungoogled-chromium widevine widevine-drm
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How to install Widevine on Chromium on Arch Linux; how to watch Netflix on Chromium Arch Linux
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/evangelions/chromium-widevine
- Owner: Evangelions
- License: apache-2.0
- Archived: true
- Created: 2022-03-19T11:42:31.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-06-10T07:39:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-29T19:20:36.953Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: arch-linux, chrome, chromium, digital-rights-management, drm, google-chrome, linux, privacy, proprietary, ungoogled-chromium, widevine, widevine-drm
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 12.7 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
This is the Arch Linux implementation of [proprietary's chromium-widevine](https://github.com/proprietary/chromium-widevine)
Credits for the code goes to them.
# Installing Widevine on Chromium on GNU/Linux
Most distributions' package managers come with Chromium but without Widevine, a proprietary binary blob required for DRM protected content (e.g., Netflix or Spotify). Normally your only option to access DRM-protected content would be to use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, but here are some alternate ways you can keep using stock Chromium.
Instructions are for Arch GNU/Linux; should work for other Arch-based distribution.
## Installing Google Chrome and using its Widevine distribution
### Install Google Chrome **stable** (beta or unstable won't work)
#### You will need a AUR(Arch user repository) helper to download Google Chrome like [paru](https://github.com/morganamilo/paru) or [yay](https://github.com/Jguer/yay)
Skip this if you already have it.
```bash
yay -S google-chrome
```
### Run script
The following script symlinks Google Chrome's Widevine library to Chromium's directory.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Empyreann/chromium-widevine.git && \
cd chromium-widevine && \
./use-from-google-chrome.sh
```
## Test Widevine
*warning: restarts Chromium*
```bash
killall -q chromium && \
chromium ./test-widevine.html &
```
…Or manually:
1. Restart Chromium. If it was already open, then go to [chrome://restart](chrome://restart).
2. Make sure Protected Content is enabled in settings: [chrome://settings/content/protectedContent](chrome://settings/content/protectedContent).
3. Open `test-widevine.html` from this cloned repo in Chromium.
…Alternatively, visit Netflix, Spotify, or $DEGENERATE_DRM_CONTENT_PROVIDER to see if it works directly.
# Limitations
- [Some streaming sites](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Disney-Plus-Not-On-Linux) refuse to run at all on Linux because the kernel does not provide access to chipset-level fencing of DRM decryption as provided by Microsoft and Apple systems.
- These scripts assume a standard installation from Arch Linux packages. If you have installed Google Chrome or Chromium manually, you might have to edit the scripts.
- Because we are installing files directly to `/usr` (as opposed to the more appropriate `/usr/local`), and we have to for Chromium to find Widevine, on system upgrades your package manager might clobber these files, and you will have to redo these steps.
- These instructions only work for amd64 (64-bit x86_64) on GNU/Linux.
## Installing Widevine alone without Google Chrome
Paste this into your shell:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Empyreann/chromium-widevine.git && \
cd chromium-widevine && \
./use-standalone-widevine.sh && \
killall -q chromium && \
chromium ./test-widevine.html &
```
The first method using Google Chrome just copied one directory from its installation. Observe the Widevine directory in the Google Chrome distribution:
```text
/opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm
├── LICENSE
├── manifest.json
└── _platform_specific
└── linux_x64
└── libwidevinecdm.so
```
We don't actually need the whole Google Chrome installation. We can recreate that tree in the Chromium directory (i.e., `/usr/lib/chromium`) with a standalone distribution of the Widevine shared library. Copying just `libwidevinecdm.so` into `/usr/lib/chromium` doesn't work.
Disadvantage of this method: You might have to manually re-run this script whenever Chromium updates to get the latest Widevine. The first method piggybacks Google Chrome's distribution which is assumed to be up-to-date and updated by the same package manager that updates Chromium. Use that method unless you really don't want Google Chrome on your system.