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    Installing 32 bits Widevine deb package for Chromium (on SLAX Linux)

    Reply to my post (from jmarket of PCHelpForum)

    You can use this Github repo to get it. This is the easiest way. Essentially, #1 is to install Chrome and then grab it's Widevine .so and it will auto update.

    $wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
    echo 'deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    $sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y google-chrome-stable
    $git clone https://github.com/proprietary/chromium-widevine.git && cd chromium-widevine && ./use-from-google-chrome.sh

    and then to test it you use:

    killall -q -SIGTERM chromium-browser || killall -q -SIGTERM chromium && exec $(command -v chromium-browser || command -v chromium) ./test-widevine.html &
    My reply to what I quoted above:

    I have done than this partially a few weeks ago. I downloaded the latest 32 bits Chrome version and I obtained two files from it, libwidevinecdm.so and libwidevinecdmadapter.so; then I placed these two files in the /usr/lib/Chromium directory, and I restarted Chromium from command line at terminal and tested by opening the file test-widevine.html. The result of the test was as follows:

    . [✗] Widevine not found
    . [✗] audio codec audio/mp4;codecs="mp4a.40.2" not supported
    . [✗] video codec video/mp2t;codecs="avc1.42E01E,mp4a.40.2" not supported
    . [✗] video codec video/webm;codecs="vorbis,vp8" not supported
    . [✗] video codec video/mp4;codecs="ec-3" not supported
    . [✗] video codec video/mp4;codecs="avc1.42c00d" not supported

    It is obvious that Widevine was not installed. What is missing in this procedure that I followed? How do I get Widevine installed and active?
    Last edited by sebastianbenito; August 18th, 2024 at 01:31 AM.

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