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hicksy994

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Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Even with the widevine package netflix still doesn't work on chromium. Any ideas why?

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Define "doesn't work". Do you get an error message? Did you ensure that sites can play protected content?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … ule_plugin

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hicksy994

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Define "doesn't work". Do you get an error message? Did you ensure that sites can play protected content?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … ule_plugin

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Yeah I get the error: Missing Component - WidevineCdm

I have correctly set "sites can play protected content"

Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Have you completely shut down chromium including all background processes?

hicksy994

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Have you completely shut down chromium including all background processes?

I rebooted, would that do it?

Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

It would. How are you starting chromium and is it the one from the Extra repo?

Morn

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Firefox plays Netflix just fine if you enable DRM support in Preferences, so I would not even bother with chromium-widevine anymore at this point.

hicksy994

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

It would. How are you starting chromium and is it the one from the Extra repo?

Yeah its from extra. Just starting chromium with the chromium command.

Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

What does `which chromium` give you?

hicksy994

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

What does `which chromium` give you?

/usr/bin/chromium

Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

how about `pacman -Qi chromium chromium-widevine`

hicksy994

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

how about `pacman -Qi chromium chromium-widevine`

λ ~/ pacman -Qi chromium chromium-widevine
Name            : chromium
Version         : 61.0.3163.100-1
Description     : A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.chromium.org/Home
Licenses        : BSD
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk3  nss  alsa-lib  xdg-utils  libxss  libcups  libgcrypt  ttf-font  systemd  dbus  libpulse
                  pciutils  json-glib  desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme  flac  opus  minizip  libxml2
                  harfbuzz-icu  libxslt  re2  libwebp  libjpeg  snappy
Optional Deps   : pepper-flash: support for Flash content
                  kdialog: needed for file dialogs in KDE
                  gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring [installed]
                  kwallet: for storing passwords in KWallet
Required By     : chromium-widevine
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 204.02 MiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Fri 22 Sep 2017 11:38:27 BST
Install Date    : Thu 12 Oct 2017 11:34:20 BST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

Name            : chromium-widevine
Version         : 1:1.4.8.1008-1
Description     : A browser plugin designed for the viewing of premium video content
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.widevine.com/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : chromium  gcc-libs  glib2  glibc  nspr  nss
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 5.53 MiB
Packager        : Unknown Packager
Build Date      : Fri 13 Oct 2017 10:21:29 BST
Install Date    : Fri 13 Oct 2017 10:21:30 BST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : None

WorMzy

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Please edit your post to use code tags for that output.

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Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Your chromium-widevine package is slightly larger than mine (5.50MiB) and I have no idea why, but everything should work as far as I can see. Can you try it with a fresh user?

judd1

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

I just installed

 chromiun-codecs

from the AUR, then a reboot and Netflix already works on Chromium as well as Firefox.

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Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

Which is illegally redistributing the widevine plugin already included in chromium-widevine

Edit: yeah, do not use chromium-codecs. It will likely be deleted soon.

Last edited by Scimmia (2017-10-14 17:59:26)

judd1

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

I apologize for reliving an old post, it happens that this has served me and can serve other people.

Which is illegally redistributing the widevine plugin already included in chromium-widevine

Edit: yeah, do not use chromium-codecs. It will likely be deleted soon.

Completely true to make these days a new installation of Arch, for that reason, looking for I found this on GitHub

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Scimmia

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Re: Netflix on Chromium not working even with chromium-widevine

And again, don't use that crappy link. It was deleted from the AUR for a reason.