Bug 694330

Summary:	www-client/google-chrome-unstable-78.0.3902.4 - widevine DRM broken with Netflix and Amazon Prime
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Chromium Project <chromium>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	kuraga333
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joshua Clayton 2019-09-14 02:01:10 UTC

Netflix and Amazon prime refuse to play video with google-chrome unstable 78.0.3902.4
To troubleshoot it, I first moved ~/.config/google-chrome-unstable, to see if it was profile or plugin related.
No joy, but after downgrading to google-chrome-beta-77.0.3865.75 it works as before.
This might be an upstream bug.

If anyone else runs into this, maybe you can report it to google through the reporting tool in chrome.

Comment 1 Miroslav Šulc gentoo-dev

2019-09-14 07:13:14 UTC

i can confirm this. google-chrome-unstable does not install libwidevinecdm.so anymore.

Comment 2 Stephan Hartmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-09-14 08:26:15 UTC

Likely this one: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1002648

Comment 3 Alexander Kurakin 2020-05-18 08:39:30 UTC

Could anyone confirm it works for current Chrome/Chromium, please?