Solved Widevine under ungoogled-chromium

fmc000 · Jul 31, 2024

tl;dr : I cannot make it work.

What I did:

install linux-c7;
sysrc linux_enable="YES";
start linux service;
install foreign-cdm;
build and install linux-widevine-cdm;
start the broweser and test a DRM enabled video.

What am I missing?

primevideo doesn't work too but I don't know if it's related.

SirDice · Jul 31, 2024

fmc000 said:
primevideo doesn't work too but I don't know if it's related.

As far as I know Amazon Prime uses Widevine DRM too, just like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and a bunch of other streaming services.

NapoleonWils0n · Jul 31, 2024

Chromium enable drm playback by building the www/linux-widevine-cdm port with Poudriere

Chromium has been recently patched to enable Widevine support as mentioned in the post This lets you play widevine drm encrypted audio and video, so you can watch things like Netflix, Channel4 and ITV in the UK or other video services that use widevine drm or listen to Spotify I have written a...

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monwarez · Jul 31, 2024

That is expected, ungoogled-chromium and chromium does not share the same share directory.
linux-widevine-cdm installed the following directory /usr/local/share/chromium/WidevineCdm.
You will need to symlink it into the share directory of ungoogled-chromium.

fmc000 · Jul 31, 2024

monwarez said:
That is expected, ungoogled-chromium and chromium does not share the same share directory.
linux-widevine-cdm installed the following directory /usr/local/share/chromium/WidevineCdm.
You will need to symlink it into the share directory of ungoogled-chromium.

Well, not exactly:

Code:

[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~]
 ⤷ $ pkg list linux-widevine-cdm
/usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
/usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/manifest.json
/usr/local/share/licenses/linux-widevine-cdm-4.10.2710.0/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/linux-widevine-cdm-4.10.2710.0/Proprietary
/usr/local/share/licenses/linux-widevine-cdm-4.10.2710.0/catalog.mk
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~]
 ⤷ $

and I tried the symlink trick

Code:

[19:13][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~]
 ⤷ $ ls -l /usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/libwidevinecdm.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 73 Jul 31 12:12 /usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/libwidevinecdm.so -> /usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
[19:13][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~]
 ⤷ $

but it still doesn't work.

Actually I noted this:

Code:

[19:19][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium]
 ⤷ $ file *so
libEGL.so:            ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=2a432a61bd22cadc0facb402e099c19b7b537360, stripped
libGLESv2.so:         ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=a0eca74e22d392b0ade4441ec0b374a8ae0c1b52, stripped
libVkICD_mock_icd.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=02bf9c720c457cc83d973d01694856d3605b604b, stripped
libvk_swiftshader.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=2d45f8b367b780d2a55945d38fd80be76919787a, stripped
libvulkan.so:         ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=d80db5bb9074571a289849cdfd1004b9bf66fc9b, stripped
libwidevinecdm.so:    symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
[19:19][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium]
 ⤷ $ file /usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
/usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=5febf487d3c5f52f4db4764b983a88dbfbdc8804, stripped
[19:20][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium]
 ⤷ $

Can this be the problem? I admit that I'm still very new to FreeBSD...

monwarez · Jul 31, 2024

it is the whole directory, it was installed by foreign-cdm

fmc000 · Jul 31, 2024

OK, so I tried:

Code:

 ⤷ $ file /usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/WidevineCdm
/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/WidevineCdm: symbolic link to ../chromium/WidevineCdm/
[19:38][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium]
 ⤷ $

and also:

Code:

 ⤷ $ file /usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/WidevineCdm
/usr/local/share/ungoogled-chromium/WidevineCdm: symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/WidevineCdm
[19:41][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~]
 ⤷ $

but it still doesn't work.

[BTW - many thanks for your help - much appreciated]

monwarez · Jul 31, 2024

Have you enabled protected content ?
chrome://settings/content/protectedContent
and restarted multiple time ungoogled-chromium ?
Is there a WidevineCdm directory under $HOME/.config/ungoogled-chromium ?
What is the content of the file under it named latest-component-updated-widevine-cdm ?

fmc000 · Jul 31, 2024

monwarez said:
Have you enabled protected content ?
chrome://settings/content/protectedContent

Yes

monwarez said:
and restarted multiple time ungoogled-chromium ?

Yes (even logout and reboot)

monwarez said:
Is there a WidevineCdm directory under $HOME/.config/ungoogled-chromium ?

Yes

monwarez said:
What is the content of the file under it named latest-component-updated-widevine-cdm ?

Code:

{"Path":"/usr/local/share/chromium/WidevineCdm"}

monwarez · Jul 31, 2024

when you try to launch a drm video, does running jls report something ?
Also what is the output of: ls -l /usr/local/libexec/fcdm-jail.

fmc000 · Jul 31, 2024

Well, well, well, look at that:

And what did I do? Absolutely NOTHING! It started working by itself with no reason whatsoever

And not only that:

even Prime Video works now. I wish I could say it was I who fixed it.

Anyways, thanks to eveyone that helped me, much appreciated. I'm marking this thread as SOLVED.

NapoleonWils0n · Jul 31, 2024

Code:

Yes Master ? ls -l ~/.config/chromium/WidevineCdm
total 1
-rw-------  1 djwilcox djwilcox 48 31 Jul 19:42 latest-component-updated-widevine-cdm
[

Code:

{"Path":"/usr/local/share/chromium/WidevineCdm"}

when you play a drm video with chromium it creates these 2 directories
in the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Code:

Yes Master ? su
Password:
# ls -l /var/run/xdg/djwilcox/
total 7
dr-xr-xr-x  11 djwilcox djwilcox 704 31 Jul 20:24 .fcdm-jail
-r--r--r--   1 djwilcox djwilcox   0 31 Jul 19:07 .fcdm-lock

on Freebsd 14.1 the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is created here

Code:

/var/run/xdg/username/

where username is your username
and the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is exported so you dont exported in your shell config

Code:

printenv

Code:

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/run/xdg/djwilcox

Solved Widevine under ungoogled-chromium

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