[Solved]How can I enable the playing of DRM content?

[hattie]

hattie last edited by leocg

Channel 4 will not let me play any of their programmes because Digital Right Management is not enabled.
None of their information pages are about Opera and I can't discover how to enable DRM.
Please can anyone help?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

Goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and delete the "WidevineCdm" and "MediaFoundationWidevineCdm" folders one level up from the profile folder.

Then, start Opera, goto the URL opera://components and click "update" for both of the Widevine components and wait for their versions to change from 0.0.0.0 to some version. Then, restart Opera.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @hattie last edited by

@hattie said in How can I enable the playing of DRM content?:

Channel 4

Are you talking about https://www.channel4.com/?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

What version of Windows though and what version of Opera as seen at the URL opera://about?

[hattie]

hattie last edited by

@burnout426
Thanks for your help, burnout426,

I'm running Opera one 105.0.4970.21
Windows 11 64bit

Profile: C:\Users\hatak\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Default
Yes, this is about Channel 4.

I can't find ' the "WidevineCdm" and "MediaFoundationWidevineCdm" folders one level up from the profile folder.'
This is all "Here be Dragons" territory for me and I'm scared to do something un-reversible as this is a new laptop.

I know I'm thick, but I'm 76 and only came to computers in the last 5 years with nobody to teach me. Please don't abandon me.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @hattie last edited by

@hattie

While Opera is closed, hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type:

explorer "%APPDATA%\Opera Software\Opera Stable"

and press enter.

That will get you to where you need to go. Then, you can right-click on each of those 2 folders mentioned and delete them. It's safe.

[hattie]

hattie @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 OK, I found the Widevine files and deleted them. The problem now is that when I try the Update bit, via opera://components I just get an image of the files (Or so it seems) and although it says it's updating, nothing is happening. Probably because it is just a picture?

[hattie]

hattie @hattie last edited by

@hattie I made it. I just tried Channel 4 again, and it's working, even though I couldn't update The Widevine components.
I don't know why, but I fixed it and I'm happy to leave it there. Thanks a million, burnout426 for holding my hand while I got there.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @hattie last edited by

@hattie said in How can I enable the playing of DRM content?:

The problem now is that when I try the Update bit, via opera://components I just get an image of the files (Or so it seems) and although it says it's updating, nothing is happening. Probably because it is just a picture?

Not sure what you were seeing there, but glad all is working now.

[jameskent]

jameskent last edited by

In my case to enable DRM in Opera I had to create widevine_config.json file in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources directory.

widevine_config.json:

[ { "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so" } ]

I restarted Opera and live Youtube videos are playing at last!

[ianiver9]

ianiver9 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 I had a DRM error message from Amazon Prime and this solution solved the problem. Thank you sir.

[ferroao]

ferroao @jameskent last edited by

@jameskent this worked for me https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine