Poeple from Arch have gone further and have done what I supposed : change the widevine gyp file so the support is compiled with the chromium branding, but no success so far :
>From willmtemple on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-pepper- flash/ ""Alien's slackware package does not work. libwidevinecdm cannot be imported into current chromium or chromium-dev, as it requires the 'branding' gyp variable to be set to 'Chrome' during compile time. Setting that variable will cause the build to fail (because Google includes proprietary code and copyrighted images that we don't have in their Chrome branded builds). I took the gyp configurations and patched them such that the widevine cdm support would be built in to 'Chromium' branded builds and by issuing -Denable-pepper-cdms to the gyp configurator. I also had to fake a header file and move libwidevinecdm.so to another folder within the chromium source tree. It compiled, and the plugin will automatically load when it is within the plugin path (i.e. /usr/lib/chromium/) but it will still not work. Chromium dumps several javascript errors into terminal because the plugins are acting bad. I'll keep looking into it, but I don't think that there's a good way to get Widevine into the current stable or dev releases of chromium."" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371274 Title: Unable to use the widevine plugin with chromium Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Chromium is unable to use the widevine component from google chrome : libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so How to reproduce : - copy the 2 files the chrome archive in /usr/lib/chromium-browser - check chrome://components/ - Widevine does not appear it seems widevine support is only activated when branding=chrome as seen in https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp Widevine support would enable EME playing such as Netflix ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 18 21:11:17 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-02 (350 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_FR TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chromium-browser SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'system-image-cli' UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-31 (109 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted] mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-06-01T14:14:23.245932 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1371274/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
