[Nix-dev] chromium widevine CDM

[Wout Mertens]

Circumstantial evidence : my netflix started working lots better on Mac,
because it switched to HTML5 playing. I indeed have the widevine plugin
now.

Wout.
On Sep 15, 2014 3:36 PM, "Mathijs Kwik" <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently, netflix enabled support for the chrome browser, running on
> linux. This means it should now be possible to watch netflix without
> silverlight in pure HTML5 video. This became possible because w3c's
> controversial EME (encrypted media extensions) which enables netflix to
> enforce DRM schemes.
>
> Chrome 37 and higher have full support for EME, but EME is only an
> interface which plugs into the actual DRM component. The key component
> for this scheme is called "widevine CDM", which is also used by youtube
> for some content. It turns out that the widevine technology was acquired
> by google and also used for android and chromeOS video streaming.
>
> This CDM component is part of the official chrome distribution, but from
> googling a bit I found it should have been part of chromium by default
> as well now. I checked our stable, beta and dev releases, but
> chrome://components does not show it.
>
> I suspect we need to (optionally) enable extra flags during building,
> but I'm not familiar with the build process. Can someone please give me
> some pointers? it appears there is a
> "third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp" file in our sources, so that
> should probably be included somehow.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathijs
>
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