Help install Widevine on Armbian Bookworm / Gnome

[shushkata]

Hi all. I am new to Arm and Linux in general. Got me a Raspberry pi5 several days ago and was going trough different OS systems so i can settle on one final choice. Landed in the Armbian community and tested the Armbian Bookworn / Gnome distro and was amazed how smooth and good looking this is. The only problem i have is the lack of preinstalled Widevine support. I know (and also tested) that Raspberry OS does have DRM playback support trough Widevine. So it works with the latest 64bit Arm Linux Kernel, right ?
So i even went and extracted the Widevine folder form the RpOS system....
Now, several days after i am clueless on how to install Widevine and make the Chcromium browser use it. Went trough a ton of content in the web but am not that advanced to do it myself. ( i have also tested a KDE plasma build that have this functionality already built in, but i really want to use the Armbian platform)

Can someone help me trough the process ?

 

[Bjoern12345]

Hello,

 

I wanted widivine in kodi, after some fails it found a solution.

Maybe this helps you to get widevine working on arm aarch64 in web browser, too.

 

First I used widevine-installer (needs squashfs-tools package) from here

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/widevine-installer

 

This should already work with chromium or firefox, didn't work in my case.

I did not try further to solve web brower issue, cause I wanted to use kodi.

 

I installed kodi via flatpak and setup widivine with inputstream-helper plugin.

And again it failed and was not working 😞

 

Final solution was to copy libwidevinecdm.so created by widevine-installer (/var/lib/widevine/libwidevinecdm.so) to kodi cdm folder (/home/user/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/data/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so)

 

So should be possible to get widevine working in chrome or firefox, too !!!

 

Good luck !

Bjoern