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 https://github.com/flathub/org.chromium.Chromium/pull/346

[orisson003]

Just encountered this issue when switching from Fedora to Ubuntu on M1. So far widevine still not working on default Firefox on Asahi Ubuntu. I’m wondering if this needs an upstream fix that snap Firefox needs core24 for the glib dependence. Is it possible to contact the snap folks?