Widevine Support

[clementperon]

Hi,

I have try the widevine installer from marcan with some fixes for sh, but it seems to not work with Chromium installed as a SNAP :(

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

Does someone try and had a success?

Thanks

[eslerm]

An Asahi only snap or asahi channel track in existing browser snaps are likely necessary, unless snaps are not used. We'll talk to the snap folks :)

[clementperon]

Is it not possible to manually copy the shared libs in the "chromium snap environement"?

[eslerm]

Something like that should work. For Ubuntu Asahi we want an upstream solution, and will help with that.

From https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/ubuntu-asahi/2023-11-01 snaps based on core24 may be required for glibc dependencies.

[clementperon]

@eslerm I try to rebuild a proper chromium snap => switch to core24 => rebuilding gnome-sdk-asahi => rebuild gnome-sdk. So really not trivial, I think I will wait at least that gnome-sdk switch to core24 to go for the proper solution.

For the dirty solution do I have to extract the squasfs -> patch the lib and repackage? Or do you see another solution?

[eslerm]

Manually copying should work. It can be done through snapcraft too. After unsquashing, you can rebuild and edit squashfs-root/snap/snapcraft.yaml. Commands can be ran during different stages etc.

If there is a clean distribution system for asahi-widevine, there's a chance upstream browser's would o-k an asahi snap track.

[SevralT]

First. Thanks for your fix in script. Second, after hours I found problem. It so easy problem.

Configs from file just don't add automatically to config of firefox. You can fix this problem with just manual adding that in about:config

[theofficialgman]

chromium flatpak should work (once you add Widevine in a place it is looking for) as it switched to a runtime with GLIBC 2.36+ (support for RELR, required by ChromeOS ARM64 Widevine) 3 weeks ago flathub/org.chromium.Chromium#346