Chromium and widevine on 64-bit

[dom]

An update has been pushed to support libwidevinecdm0 and chromium-browser on 64-bit RPiOS bullseye directly.
This is used by DRM protected services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.

If you were previously using 32-bit libwidevinecdm0/chromium-browser on 64-bit RPiOS, it should be possible to apt remove them,
and reinstall the native 64-bit versions. This should result in an improvement in widevine video performance.

Let us know if this works for you.

[edj]

It works great. Thank you!

[HermannSW]

An update has been pushed to support libwidevinecdm0 and chromium-browser on 64-bit RPiOS bullseye directly.
This is used by DRM protected services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.

On 32bit systems I executed a script by vpetkov and then had to use chromium media edition for netflix:
viewtopic.php?p=1767167#p1767167

What steps are now needed to use netflix with current 64bit PiOS chromium browser?

[dom]

What steps are now needed to use netflix with current 64bit PiOS chromium browser?

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sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0

assuming you already have chromium-browser installed.

[HermannSW]

What steps are now needed to use netflix with current 64bit PiOS chromium browser?

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sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0

assuming you already have chromium-browser installed.

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After installing the only step needed was to close chromium and reopen it.
I verified Netflix to work, and Amazon Prime Video:

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[cvanloot]

Hi,

Really appreciate the effort. In my case however, Raspberry 4B 8gb, the streaming starts but after a few seconds pushes the CPU to 100% and the video and sound are interrupted every few seconds as of then (whereas it was working with the 32bit browser).

[SkyHighPi]

This is big news and very welcome. I am curious how you did this as I was not aware of Google releasing a 64-bit version of Widevine for arm64?

[dom]

Really appreciate the effort. In my case however, Raspberry 4B 8gb, the streaming starts but after a few seconds pushes the CPU to 100% and the video and sound are interrupted every few seconds as of then (whereas it was working with the 32bit browser).

What resolution is it using on 32-bit and 64-bit?

[dom]

This is big news and very welcome. I am curious how you did this as I was not aware of Google releasing a 64-bit version of Widevine for arm64?

There are chromeos images for arm64.

[fivenote]

This is awesome!

There’s a bit more screen tearing compared to 32 bit. I checked chrome://gpu and it says it’s using hardware acceleration for video decode.

Any tips to improve this?

[fivenote]

This is awesome!

There’s a bit more screen tearing compared to 32 bit. I checked chrome://gpu and it says it’s using hardware acceleration for video decode.

Any tips to improve this?

Forgot to disable the compositor to reduce screen tearing…

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 5#p1641815

[caerandir]

Big thanks also from my side: Spotify Web Player works now out of the box.

[wibble]

As of the most recent (3rd May 2023) Raspbian update, none of the installation suggestions here work anymore.

I found viewtopic.php?p=2105770&hilit=netflix#p2105770 and now with chromium:armhf and libwidevinecmd0:armhf I'm back in business

[Undertow]

As of the most recent (3rd May 2023) Raspbian update, none of the installation suggestions here work anymore.

I found viewtopic.php?p=2105770&hilit=netflix#p2105770 and now with chromium:armhf and libwidevinecmd0:armhf I'm back in business

Latest 64 bit Chromium "Version 113.0.5672.59 (Official Build) Built on Debian , running on Debian 11 (64-bit)" works for me with widevine on various sites including Prime Video. I don't have netflix so can't comment on that.

[a14]

I tried the following combinations, but none of them work for me when opening https://open.spotify.com/:

• firefox-esr:armhf libwidevinecdm0:armhf
• firefox-esr libwidevinecdm
• chromium:armhf libwidevinecdm0:armhf
• chromium libwidevinecdm0

I also tried changing the user agent to something more common in Chromium, but that didn't seem to affect anything. In all cases it says "Playback of protected content is not enabled".

So, how have you all managed to enable Widevine? Because it certainly doesn't seem to work for me.

I also looked at chrome://flags/#full-user-agent but it doesn't seem to exist on my Chromium version (115.0.5790.98-1~deb11u1).

[kerry_s]

So, how have you all managed to enable Widevine? Because it certainly doesn't seem to work for me.

it's only for the raspberry os chromium, no other browser. the useragent is set to chrome os.
mine on raspberry os 64bit:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS aarch64 13597.84.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.95 Safari/537.36

if you don't have it you can install with apt.

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sudo apt install libwidevinecdm0

Chromium version (115.0.5790.98-1~deb11u1)

that is not raspberry chromium.