I can confirm chromium now automatically installs a local copy of Widevine (in ~/.config/chromium/WidevineCdm), and this appears to work both in the deb packages and in the snap. Only a restart is required to enable the CDM. The version of Widevine can be checked by browsing to chrome://components.
In my tests this works on amd64, but not on i386. The UX isn't great because it's not discoverable, there's no user feedback and a manual restart is required, as opposed to the way Firefox handles it, but it's nevertheless a big step forward. I wonder whether this might be a consequence of https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/b5e9a646f5ac2eee57fb0c8cc545f18aa50bd994 ? Although Michel you said it started happening with chromium 81 ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863258 Title: [Snap] Install the widevine binary upon request in Chromium To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1863258/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
