Bug 523476 – www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins - add widevine DRM for Netflix support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Mike Lothian 2014-09-22 19:55:11 UTC]

Add in support for the widevine DRM so Netflix will work

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Lothian 2014-09-22 19:56:12 UTC]

Created attachment 385306 [details]
chrome-binary-plugins-39.0.2159.4_alpha1.ebuild

[Comment 2 Mike Lothian 2014-09-22 20:12:54 UTC]

I can get http://downloads.webmproject.org/demos/adaptive-eme/index.html working but Netflix complains about the component not being listed in chrome://components it is however listed in chrome://plugins/

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-09-22 21:01:47 UTC]

Comment on attachment 385306 [details]
chrome-binary-plugins-39.0.2159.4_alpha1.ebuild

--- chrome-binary-plugins-39.0.2159.4_alpha1.ebuild     2014-09-17 02:32:17.000000000 +0200
+++ -   2014-09-22 23:01:19.970828957 +0200
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 fi

 LICENSE="google-chrome"
-IUSE="+flash"
+IUSE="+drm +flash"
 RESTRICT="bindist mirror strip"

 for x in 0 beta stable unstable; do
@@ -74,9 +74,23 @@
 src_install() {
        local version flapper

-       insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/
+       if use drm; then
+               insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/pepper/
+               doins libwidevinecdmadapter.so
+               doins libwidevinecdm.so
+
+               version="1.4.6.667"
+               flapper="${ROOT}usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/pepper/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
+               echo -n "CHROMIUM_FLAGS=\"\${CHROMIUM_FLAGS} " > widevine
+               echo -n "--register-pepper-plugins=$flapper" >> widevine
+               echo "#WidevineContentDecryptionModule#Enables_Widevine_licenses_for_playback_of_HTML_audio/video_content#$version;application/x-ppapi-widevine-cdm\"" >> widevine

+               insinto /etc/chromium/
+               doins widevine
+       fi
+
        if use flash; then
+               insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/chromium-browser/
                doins -r PepperFlash

                # Since this is a live ebuild, we're forced to, unfortuantely,


Also, "unfortuantely".

[Comment 4 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2014-09-25 03:55:19 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 522614 ***