Hi, I am on Archlinux. We have packages in AUR which should provide widevine, one of them especially for qt5-webengine . Generally they get the widevine component and copy the content ( libwidevinecdm.so ) to /usr/lib/chromium. So far so good... If i have chromium installed alongside e.g. Qupzilla i can watch netflix with qupzilla very well. but if i remove chromium i ran in issues: widevine-component not found. So, with removing chromium i also removed libwidevinecdm adapter .so from /usr/lib/chromium. I searched the web and contacted the maintainer, but no clear statement. I guess qt5-webengine needs both libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so to work properly. Can someone of the devs please confirm...

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Do I need widevinecdmadapter.so to watch Netflix, Prime etc.?

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Hi,

I am on Archlinux.
We have packages in AUR which should provide widevine, one of them especially for qt5-webengine. Generally they get the widevine component and copy the content (libwidevinecdm.so) to /usr/lib/chromium. So far so good...
If i have chromium installed alongside e.g. Qupzilla i can watch netflix with qupzilla very well. but if i remove chromium i ran in issues: widevine-component not found.
So, with removing chromium i also removed libwidevinecdmadapter.so from /usr/lib/chromium.
I searched the web and contacted the maintainer, but no clear statement. I guess qt5-webengine needs both libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so to work properly.

Can someone of the devs please confirm...
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Hi,

I am on Archlinux.
We have packages in AUR which should provide widevine, one of them especially for qt5-webengine. Generally they get the widevine component and copy the content (libwidevinecdm.so) to /usr/lib/chromium. So far so good...
If i have chromium installed alongside e.g. Qupzilla i can watch netflix with qupzilla very well. but if i remove chromium i ran in issues: widevine-component not found.
So, with removing chromium i also removed libwidevinecdmadapter.so from /usr/lib/chromium.
I searched the web and contacted the maintainer, but no clear statement. I guess qt5-webengine needs both libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so to work properly.

Can someone of the devs please confirm...
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@omni Hi, welcome to the forum.

You should rather bring this to the interest mailing list. The framework developers/maintainers hang out there. This forum is more user oriented.
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Yes i will do, thank you!
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