No H.264/x264 support - Githubissues

tariqmudallal commented 3 years ago

YouTube seems to work fine. However when I go to any other website that plays some form of video/animation (like Dailymotion, Plex, etc.), it refuses to load due to using codecs like H.264 or x264, you get the idea. Tried installing the codec related packages to no avail. Is it possible to add such support? Would I have to edit and rebuild the CEF to get it to work? Sorry am not super experienced-experienced with Debian (which I am running Browservice on) or even Linux in general, and am not an experienced programmer.

ttalvitie commented 3 years ago

This point in README.md is relevant for you:

By default, Browservice can't play videos that use proprietary audio/video codecs such as H264 and AAC, as the prebuilt CEF distribution provided by Spotify does not include them. To add the codecs, build the CEF distribution by following the instructions with the options proprietary_codecs=true ffmpeg_branding=Chrome appended to the environment variable GN_DEFINES. After this, you should repeat the Browservice installation process with one exception: prior to running setup_cef.sh, copy the CEF distribution produced by the build to cef.tar.bz2 instead of using download_cef.sh to download it. Note that building CEF takes a lot of time, memory and disk space. Also note that you may have to pay license fees to use the proprietary codecs legally, as they are encumbered by patents.

So while it is possible, it is unfortunately quite a pain to get it working: you must ensure that you have the right to use the proprietary codecs, and you have to do a custom build of the CEF library (which takes a lot of time and computational resources, and you might run into issues I can't really help you with).

JeremyLyokoPPG2020 commented 3 years ago

Can Watching Streaming netflix on Browservice but DRM is Not working. how fix?

ttalvitie commented 3 years ago

@achmadsutardi441953 I think you would need Widevine content decryption module, which would require source code modifications. It seems possible with CEF, there are some instructions here: https://www.magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17719 . But I can't really help you beyond this, as I don't want to go through the legal hurdles of getting a legitimate Widevine CDM to test whether it works.

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