On Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2017 21:45:34 CEST Jan Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I am on Archlinux. > We have packages in AUR which should provide widevine, one of them > especially for > [qt5-webengine](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt5-webengine-widevine/) > . Generally they get the [widevine > component](https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip) and > copy the content (libwidevinecdm.so) to / usr/lib/chromium. So far so > good... > If i have chromium installed alongside e.g. Qupzilla i can watch netflix > with qupzilla very well. but if i remove chromium i ran in issues: > widevine- component not found. > So, with removing chromium i also remove libwidevinecdm**adapter**.so from / > usr/lib/chromium. > I searched the web and contacted the maintainer, but no clear statement. > I guess qt5-webengine needs both **libwidevinecdmadapter.so and > libwidevinecdm.so** to work properly. > > Can someone of the devs please confirm... > You you need both. One is just a plugin wrapper for the other. So libwidevinecdmadapter.so is what Chrome and QtWebEngine talks to, the PPAPI plugin, but libwidevinecdm.so is the shared library with all the crucial DRM functionality.
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