Cannot play Netflix, PrimeVideo videos

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Cannot play Netflix, PrimeVideo videos

Postby martinrm » Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:54 am

I am running cefsimple from this pre-built code. cefsimple is running on linux_x64 platform.
CEF is said to automatically download the Widevine Library.
Indeed libwidevinecdm.so is present in user_data_path/WidevineCdm/4.10.2209.0/_platform_specific/linux_x64
directory.

Later, I also built Debug build of cefsimple using the instructions given here.
I added a std::cout inside RegisterWidevineCdmComponent funtion present in chromium source. And I was getting the std::cout, So RegisterWidevineCdmComponent was getting called.

I am running both the builds using `cefsimple --use-views --url="https://netflix.com"`

Screenshots of output of different websites.
    * Shaka player - Interesting part is that I am able to play this video on shaka player. This video was suggested by magreenblatt here. Screenshot is here.

Can anyone please guide me towards the next logical step in debugging this issue? Thanks.
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Re: Cannot play Netflix, PrimeVideo videos

Postby magreenblatt » Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:56 am

CEF does not support proprietary codecs by default. You will need to build that yourself. Search the forum for related instructions.
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Re: Cannot play Netflix, PrimeVideo videos

Postby martinrm » Wed Oct 27, 2021 8:41 am

Hey magreenblatt, Big Thanks. It works now.
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