Since the Chromium 79 snap, this seems to no longer work. I have the libwidevinecdm.so from Firefox in ~/snap/chromium/current/.local/lib/, which always worked fine before, but now EME videos all just show warnings and the plugin does not seem to be loaded.
Extracting the libwidevinecdm.so from a Chrome deb and putting it in the same place also does not help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738149 Title: [snap] Cannot use libwidevinecdm.so to play back DRM-encrypted video Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The chromium-browser deb package has a patch that allows the browser to look for the content decryption module in /opt/google/chrome/ and use it if present (assumes google-chrome is also installed). This won't work with the snap, because the snap's runtime environment won't use /opt from the host. What could work is to patch chromium to look for libwidevinecdm.so somewhere within the snap's area ($SNAP_USER_COMMON or $SNAP_USER_DATA), and have instructions for the user to copy the file to this area. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1738149/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
