Widevine Content Decryption Module Brave

 



Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology from Google used by the Google Chrome and Firefox web browsers (and some derivatives), Android MediaDRM, Android TV, and other consumer electronics devices. Widevine technology supports various encryption schemes and hardware security to restrict consumer access to distributed video content according to rules defined by content owners. Widevine mainly provides a Content Decryption Module (CDM) as a client to Google Chrome and other browsers and devices. Widevine is free to use by content providers and as such does not charge any fees for license generation or device integration.[1][2]

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I recently upgraded to the x64 installation of Firefox. In doing so I noticed that the Widevine Content Decryption Module is constantly stuck on the 'will be installing shortly' dialog. So far I have attempted the following fixes to no avail: -Manually install from Google -Create a clean profile. Widevine Content Decryption Moduleにフルアクセスを許可する. 一部のユーザーは 、Widevine Content Decryption Module を更新できないと報告しました。 これを修正するには、次を実行して特権を変更する必要があります。 Windowsキー+ Rを押します 。 タイプ ％userprofile. You need to go to Brave browser ‘settings’ by clicking on the top right and then select ‘Extensions’ or you can directly go by typing brave://settings/extensions into the address bar. Now scroll down and find Widevine & Enable it. Download and install widevinecdm.dll to fix missing or corrupted DLL errors. Free, Safe and Secure. Any Widevine compatible system will have a Content Decryption Module provided by Widevine, mainly used for decryption of content. Check Installed Widevine Libraries on Your System. Widevine libraries must be present and supported by browsers installed on your Ubuntu system. You can verify if Widevine libraries are duly installed on your system or not by running the two commands mentioned below: $.

Usage[edit]

Widevine DRM is used with the Chromium-based proprietary web browsers and on Android.[3] It supports MPEG-DASH and HLS.[4]Google Chrome and Chrome OS make use of Encrypted Media Extensions and Media Source Extensions with Widevine, where it is used to decrypt content.[5] Over thirty chipsets, six major desktop and mobile operating systems, and Google properties such as Chromecast and Android TV have adopted Widevine.[6]

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Companies including Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify and Disney+ use Widevine DRM to manage the distribution of premium content.[7][8]

It is also used by Firefox since v47, released in 2016,[9] enabled by default on Microsoft Windows and optionally on Linux; it can be disabled and uninstalled in the browser settings.[10] Prior to that, Mozilla used Adobe's Primetime DRM library for some versions.[11]

Users[edit]

Open source projects[edit]

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  • Shaka Player – Google developed open-source HTML5 web-based player available on GitHub.[12]
  • Shaka Packager – Google developed open-source content packaging solution available on GitHub. The packager supports MPEG-DASH and HLS for VOD or linear based content.[13]
  • Shaka Streamer – Google developed simple configuration file based tool for preparing streaming media content.[14]
  • Electron Framework – Widevine partnered with castLabs to integrate the Widevine client into the Electron framework for use with desktop application development.[15] The integration, however, still requires anyone who wants to distribute/use it in their application to sign a license agreement with Google.[16]
  • Kodi - starting from version 18, the add-on InputStream Helper installs Widevine automatically on supported platforms for DRM playback.[17]

Criticism[edit]

In 2019, a developer tried to bundle Widevine in an Electron/Chromium-based application for video playing and did not get any response from Google after asking for a license agreement, effectively blocking DRM usage in the project.[18][19] He later got the reply:

I'm sorry but we're not supporting an open source solution like this

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— Google Widevine Support, https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/widevine/gmail-thread.html

Video downloading for mac. The same happened to other Electron projects.[20]

Developers of a competing browser to Chrome, Brave (a fork of Chromium itself), also had issues during their integration due to Netflix authentication on the reliability of the Brave browser.[21]

History[edit]

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Widevine Technologies was a vendor of digital rights management software. One of its early technologies included a software system that replaced smart cards that eliminated the cost and logistical complexity of the card's distribution and introduced the abilities to process more sophisticated rights.[22] It was purchased by Google in 2010 within an acquisition trend that represented the search company's development needs.[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Widevine Media Optimizer | Encoding.com'. Encoding.com. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  2. ^'Widevine digital rights management explained'. Android Authority. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2018-08-06.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^Triggs, Robert (2017-12-11). 'Widevine digital rights management explained'. androidauthority.com. Retrieved 2018-01-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. ^Semba, Taku (2018-05-31). 'HLS with Widevine for Android'. Taku Semba. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  5. ^'The Complete Guide to Widevine'. encoding.com. Retrieved 2018-01-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  6. ^'Supported Platforms'. Widevine. Archived from the original on 2013-09-13. Retrieved 2018-01-11. nearly 4 billion devicesCS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  7. ^Langner, Christoph (2016-05-05). 'Amazon Prime Video mit Kodi und dem Raspberry Pi (jetzt mit Input Stream und Widevine)' (in German). linuxundich.de. Retrieved 2018-01-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  8. ^'BBC deploys BuyDRM to secure premium digital content'. Digital TV News. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  9. ^Mozilla. 'Mozilla To Test Widevine CDM in Firefox Nightly To Facilitate Video Watching Online'. Future Releases. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  10. ^'Watch DRM content on Firefox | Firefox Help'. support.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  11. ^'Firefox 52: Adobe Primetime CDM removal – gHacks Tech News'. www.ghacks.net. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  12. ^JavaScript player library / DASH & HLS client / MSE-EME player: google/shaka-player, Google, 2019-03-01, retrieved 2019-03-01
  13. ^A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems.: google/shaka-packager, Google, 2019-03-01, retrieved 2019-03-01
  14. ^A simple config-file based approach to preparing streaming media, based on FFmpeg and Shaka Packager.: google/shaka-streamer, Google, 2019-11-08, retrieved 2019-11-12
  15. ^GitHub – castlabs/electron-releases: castLabs Electron for Content Security., castLabs GmbH, 2019-02-28, retrieved 2019-03-01
  16. ^Maddock, Samuel. 'Support Widevine CDM · Issue #85 · samuelmaddock/metastream'. GitHub. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  17. ^Matt Huisman (2018-05-28). 'Kodi Widevine Support'.
  18. ^Doctorow, Cory. 'After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations'. Boing Boing. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  19. ^Maddock, Samuel (2019-04-02). 'I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me'. samuelmaddock.github.io. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  20. ^'Netflix isn't working even with Widevine correctly loaded. · Issue #12427 · electron/electron'. GitHub. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  21. ^Bondy, Brian R. (2017-08-21). 'Netflix Streaming Error · Issue #10449 · brave/browser-laptop'. GitHub. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  22. ^Gerbarg, Darcy (2008). Television Goes Digital. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 214. ISBN9780387799773.
  23. ^Watson, James; Hill, Anne (2015). Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies, 9th edition. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 119. ISBN9781628921489.

External links[edit]

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  • Official website

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