Widevine CDM not detected despite having Chrome and the plugin setting enabled (Ubuntu 18.04)
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As I described above, I'm using Vivaldi in Ubuntu 18.04 but Netflix and Amazon Video don't work because of missing Widevine components. I don't know what caused the error because it used to work since first install until it suddenly stopped working. It works on Chrome, just not on Vivaldi
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Thanks for the response. Hopefully this gets resolved soon
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@gwen-dragon Hey! Job well done, fellow Lilo.
Congrats, Linux wizard 2 :)) -
@gwen-dragon Absolutely:) Your scripts have the highest priority for me. Why? They do work.
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@gwen-dragon That's a matter of quality & merit.
The script worked perfectly even Vivaldi installed in a non-standard location. Yes, bash geek sounds better.:))
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It probably stopped working because we use the Widevine component from Chrome (if you have Chrome installed) and we are currnetly behind in our Chromium version. You can fix it like so for now:
WIDEVINE_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/vivaldi-snapshot ./latest-widevine.shYou can get a copy of the latest-widevine script from here.
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@ruario Welcome Linux wizard:)
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@ruario No luck with latest snapshot. Everything is in /opt/vivaldi-snapshot folder but not loaded with Vivaldi.
Widevine 1.4.9.1088 has been installed.
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In /opt/vivaldi-snapshot is libwidevinecdm.so a symlink
$ ls -lha libwidevinecdm.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Aug 24 09:02 libwidevinecdm.so -> /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.soEdit: you have latest version of libwidevinecdm.so 1.4.9.1088
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@lamarca Thank you for your answer.
It was, it's not anymore.
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You are welcome.
@anthony-franckhauser said in Widevine CDM not detected despite having Chrome and the plugin setting enabled (Ubuntu 18.04):
It was, it's not anymore.
I didn't get that part.
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@lamarca What I am saying is that before I ran the script it was symlink and now it's the lib file.
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@anthony-franckhauser It seems to be the core of your issue.
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@lamarca I recreate the symlink by copying files to the /opt/google/chrome and ln -sf.. still not available.
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@anthony-franckhauser I use Gwen script to update libwidevinecdm.so it's the same of our Linux wizard, his instruction should be fix the issue
My suggestion is: remove Vivaldi, delete the folder in /opt - you profile will not be affected - then reinstall.
Download:
https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe37f1 -
@lamarca Thank you, tried a mix and it works but don't appear in components page (maybe it was working since the start) but it works so.. good enough.
Would be better if everything comes with Vivaldi package like Windows.. solved for me for the time being.
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Twenty two replies!
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I've got a similar issue, but I'm not able to solve it.
I'm running Gentoo Linux 32bit; after successfully updating the codecs using latest-proprietary-media-future.sh I'm able to play video in this page, but I still get errors from both Amazon and Netflix about the missing/not updated Widevine component, respectively.
I'm pretty sure it's using the right libraries, as after running~lsof | grep vivaldi | grep widevine, I can see that the paths listed are those of the widevine files installed withlatest-widevine.sh.Any suggestions?
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