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.

https://stamm-wilbrandt.de/cgi-bin/echo ... ank+you%21

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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:

amazon_prime.Pi400.jpg

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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.