Package Details: chromium-widevine 1:4.10.2830.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/chromium-widevine.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: chromium-widevine
Description: A browser plugin designed for the viewing of premium video content
Upstream URL: https://www.widevine.com/
Keywords: amazon chrome netflix prime webengine
Licenses: custom
Submitter: Scimmia
Maintainer: envolution
Last Packager: envolution
Votes: 419
Popularity: 0.031210
First Submitted: 2015-04-17 05:05 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-02 19:14 (UTC)

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josete commented on 2021-05-23 16:25 (UTC)

Done! Thanks a lot!

lucasgta95 commented on 2021-05-23 16:01 (UTC)

it's working on ungoogled chromium, just follow mlody_salceson comment after install...

josete commented on 2021-05-10 07:56 (UTC)

I have installed chromium-snapshot-bin but I have no idea how to enable the viewing of premium video content. I'm a newbie and my English knowledge is also limited. What must I do to enable this? Thanks!

bkb commented on 2021-03-22 09:24 (UTC)

Does it permit to use Netflix in 4K?

JstKddng commented on 2020-08-29 19:24 (UTC)

hey @Scimmia, I could take over and maintain this package if you are no longer interested or use it. Me and other people that use ungoogled-chromium still need this since ungoogled-chromium can't download this component. I also maintain ungoogled-chromium and I wouldn't mind maintaining this package as well.

LoganDark commented on 2020-08-28 02:19 (UTC)

Some sort of cp error currently prevents the build from working for me. 

==> Making package: chromium-widevine 1:4.10.1679.0-1 (Thu 27 Aug 2020 06:53:08 PM PDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading google-chrome-stable_85.0.4183.83-1_amd64.deb...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 66.9M  100 66.9M    0     0  5702k      0  0:00:12  0:00:12 --:--:-- 7242k
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    google-chrome-stable_85.0.4183.83-1_amd64.deb ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting google-chrome-stable_85.0.4183.83-1_amd64.deb with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/home/logandark/.cache/rua/build/chromium-widevine/pkg/chromium-widevine/usr/lib/chromium/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64': Invalid argument
cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/home/logandark/.cache/rua/build/chromium-widevine/pkg/chromium-widevine/usr/lib/chromium/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific': Invalid argument
cp: failed to preserve ownership for '/home/logandark/.cache/rua/build/chromium-widevine/pkg/chromium-widevine/usr/lib/chromium/WidevineCdm': Invalid argument
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
Build failed with exit code 4 in /home/logandark/.cache/rua/build/chromium-widevine

here is a diff that fixes it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index acc2b43..ec9dcd7 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ package() {
   depends=('gcc-libs' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'nspr' 'nss')

   install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/"chromium{,-dev}/
-  cp -a WidevineCdm "$pkgdir/usr/lib/chromium/"
+  cp -R WidevineCdm "$pkgdir/usr/lib/chromium/"
   ln -s ../chromium/WidevineCdm "$pkgdir/usr/lib/chromium-dev/WidevineCdm"
   install -Dm644 WidevineCdm/LICENSE -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
 # backward compatibility

Perhaps this does not preserve the original intent of the command, but it works for me rather than failing with "invalid argument".

mlody_salceson commented on 2020-08-26 04:22 (UTC)

Hello, I am using ungoogled-chromium, but plugin didn't work for me. I have discovered it was lacking execute permissions on my system. After "sudo chmod a+x /usr/lib/chromium/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so" the plugin loaded and worked fine. Thanks for maintaining the package!

Scimmia commented on 2020-08-23 13:57 (UTC)

I never said I would delete it, I just shouldn't be maintaining something long-term that I don't use.

AndyRTR, that would work if upstream didn't delete the packages when a new minor version was released.

AndyRTR commented on 2020-08-23 07:31 (UTC)

Please keep the package also for use with mellowplayer. No need to update at each minor chromium release. It should be sufficient to update only when the plugin gets a bump.

redfish commented on 2020-08-23 02:36 (UTC)

@Scimmia: please don't delete this package, it is the only way to have Widevine working in Opera browser. For extra details, see this bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67683

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