Widevine not working

zerthick

After updating to the latest version of Vivaldi for the Raspberry Pi it looks like Widevine no longer works. I am on Vivaldi 78.0.3904.99, running the script linked in the Vivalidi documentation no longer appears to work. Netflix complains it is missing the Widevine component. Any idea how to fix it?

jumpsq

~~Widevine is also not working for me on vivaldi-snapshot, Linux desktop. I guess it may be a more general problem?!~~

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Wow. Did not try to re-run the installation or change anything related to widevine, but now it is working.

Two days ago, it said

vivaldi://components
Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 0.0.0.0

Now there is a real version number. Pretty weird.

Ruarí

works fine here

zerthick

Nope, still isn't working. I tried re-running the script. Chromium is working with Netflix but not Vivaldi I'm on a Raspberry Pi 4 if that changes anything.

vicviv

Hello,

I would like to report the same problem.

After installing Vivaldi on fresh new RaspberryPI 4 (with Raspbian) and unpacking the libraries extracted by @ruario script - Widevine is not working (however I can see Flash version on about screen so at least flash library was picked up by Vivaldi).

I can't see Widevine on vivaldi://components and test page at bitmovin shows "using No DRM".

I've tried to copy the libwidevinecdm.so library to some other places (like Vivaldi directory) .

I've also noticed that there is invalid symlink (WidevineCdm) in Vivaldi directory pointing to
/opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm so I created this directory and copied there libwidevinecdm.so - no effect.

I've checked WidevineCdm directory on my x64 Linux box and I can see that there is very different files/dir structure there - maybe new version of Vivaldi expects something else than just library file? I've tried to recreate something similar on Raspberry but it didn't help either.

Vivaldi version: 2.10.1745.23 (stable)

EDIT: I've also tried older version of Vivaldi (2.6.1566.51) and while still nothing was displayed on components tab I could see that bitmovin test page showed "using widevine" (and lsof confirmed that Vivaldi is using library from /opt/google/chrome) - however Netflix still refused to play any movie (M7121-1331).
There is also an error visible when running Vivaldi from console:

[6687:6687:1230/135023.296394:ERROR:output_protection_proxy.cc(50)] Not implemented reached in void OutputProtectionProxy::EnableProtection(uint32_t, const OutputProtectionProxy::EnableProtectionCallback &)
[6687:6687:1230/135024.525185:ERROR:output_protection_proxy.cc(50)] Not implemented reached in void OutputProtectionProxy::EnableProtection(uint32_t, const OutputProtectionProxy::EnableProtectionCallback &)

Best Regards,
Victor

Ikesankom

@vicviv Same problem and same tests here in TinkerOS (Debian Stretch). Netflix also same problem (hundreds of spoof profiles tried).

Ruarí

@vicviv Yes, indeed despite what I said earlier (I presume I still had 2.9 on my machine) it seems to have broken on 2.10 due to a Chromium 79 change. We have it working again on the 2.11 snapshots but you need to rerun an updated my script because a manifest.json file needs to be present now.

Ruarí

We have it working again on the 2.11 snapshots but you need to rerun an updated my script because a manifest.json file needs to be present now.

Ruarí

will try and get stable updated next week with a fix

Ruarí

done: https://vivaldi.com/blog/teamblog/minor-update-4-for-vivaldi-2-10-linux-armhf-only/

vicviv

Hello,

After installing new version of Vivaldi and re-run of @ruario script Widevine works again (bitmovin displays "using widevine", Spotify plays music etc).

Thank you very much!

However I'm still unable to force Netflix to cooperate (M7121-1331; I changed user agent as described here).
Maybe anyone here knows the way?

Rahul567

I am also facing this issue, I find and try many methods. but not work for me. Then I try a method which solves my error please follow
Open Chrome and type the following address in the address bar
chrome://components/
Now find entry find an entry named “Widevine Content Decryption Module”.
Click the button “Check for update” present underneath.

I hope this will fix your Widevine Content Decryption Module Update error issue Source:

Pesala

@Rahul567 That's a nasty stutter you have there.

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