Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
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Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
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Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#2tl;dr Install libwidevinecdm0 and Chromium receives Widevine support.
It seems to be only in the armhf repo - not available for aarch64.
Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#3That makes a rpi more useful as a set-top box. I use an old laptop and a Roku now, and this might work better if performance is any good. My old Roku can barely keep up with the new versions of Amazon's channel.
For Firefox, Mozilla published two months ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/porting-firefox-to-apple-s... which involves some Apple-specific tricks, which makes me not hopeful Firefox on Arm on Linux will support DRM soon.
Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#4Is this level 1 or level 3? If it's level 3 you'd only get 720p on netflix.
Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#5Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p. I haven't found a way to legally access 4k video on a PC.
I'm guessing the same limits apply on the RPi.
You can test this by going to a video page like https://www.netflix.com/watch/80018585 and typing `document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].videoHeight` to see the size of the actual video stream.
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#6Is this level 1 or level 3? If it's level 3 you'd only get 720p on netflix.
AFAIK level 3 doesn’t need hardware support. It is always available in a compatible software player (e.g. official Chrome build).
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#7Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing?
On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Microsoft apt repository so that people can install vscode in 1 command instead of 4. [0]
Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#8Is this level 1 or level 3? If it's level 3 you'd only get 720p on netflix.
It has to be level 3, since Google Chrome on Linux desktops (not sure about other platforms) only supports level 3.
Edit: see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60833060/why-desktop-chr...
Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#9Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing? On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Mic…
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Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support
#10Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing? On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Mic…
It's not installed by default, users need to install it (sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0). Previously it wasn't available at all though, at least not in an official way.
These are some unofficial ways of getting Widevine on a Pi (no longer needed now): https://gist.github.com/ruario/19a28d98d29d34ec9b184c42e5f8b... https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one...