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phd / chromium-repo

Chromium Browser .deb repositories for Ubuntu 20.04+
https://freeshell.de/phd/chromium/
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Possible to enable protected content? #3

Closed kevinmilner closed 7 months ago

kevinmilner commented 7 months ago

First of all, many thanks for this project.

One thing I noticed when following the steps to switch from Ubuntu's snap chromium to your PPA is that it forced me to remove the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package. Trying to re-install it forces you to uninstall chromium, so that won't work.

Have you gotten restricted content (e.g., spotify) to work with this version?

phd commented 7 months ago

Chromium package from this repository has a list of dependencies that states it Replaces both chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra packages. And indeed it provides /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpeg.so library, although I'm not sure if this is the "extra" one.

As a side note, chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra packages in Ubuntu are now transitional packages, and they both point to chromium-ffmpeg snap.


You can test your browser DRM capabilities here: https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm

This is the result I see in every browser I have installed (this Chromium, Firefox, Brave):

Media Source Extension – MSE Encrypted Media Extension – EME
v video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" v widevine
video/mp4; codecs="ec-3" playready
v video/webm; codecs="vorbis,vp8" primetime
video/mp2t; codecs="avc1.42E01E,mp4a.40.2" fairplay

And the test video provided on that website works.


Have you gotten restricted content (e.g., spotify) to work with this version?

Does the above answer your question? I have just tested Spotify (Premium) on Chromium (120.0.6099.224), and it works fine. Have you encountered any other content that doesn't work?

kevinmilner commented 7 months ago

Huh, that's strange--it's now working. I tested right after install and it didn't, but now it is.

Maybe there was something odd about first launch that didn't work? I get the same result as you on the DRM capabilities test, and now spotify and my TV company (Spectrum)'s streaming site works (neither of which did on the first try).

Anyway, thanks for responding and sorry for the false alarm!