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Widevine works with Firefox. Why couldn't it with Chromium?

• Eldt 7y ago
  I'm sure it could, but who would implement it?
  • bmurphy1976 7y ago
    The same people who were motivated enough to get it into Firefox?
  • magduf 7y ago
    Apparently someone has, because I was using Chromium on Linux to watch Netflix several years ago without any trouble (this was before Firefox got it working).
    • saagarjha 7y ago
      Are you sure it wasn't using Chrome's implementation?
      • magduf 7y ago
        Actually, you're right, it was Chrome now that I think about it. It's been a while. Before I canceled my Netflix subscription (due to lack of use), I was using Firefox to view it.
• sbov 7y ago
  You have to license it from Google. And they don't always say yes: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/googles_widevine_drm/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/googles_widevine_dr...
  • mantap 7y ago
    That's only if you are making a browser and want to distribute it. There's no way that Google is going to mail howlers to end-users who use widevine with chromium forks.
• lultimouomo 7y ago
  Widevine works with chromium just fine - by which I mean that like with everything chromium it gets broken without apparent reason every now and then, but after some time they fix it.
• thayne 7y ago
  Because you would need to get a widevine license from google. Mozilla was able to do that, but I know at least one chromium fork had it's application for a license rejected. It technically is possible to copy the widevine library from a chrome install to use with chromium, but non technical people won't know how to do that.