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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

      @yaute What version of Widevine does opera://components/ says you have?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @leocg last edited by

        @leocg I have nothing in opera://components. I must install something ?

        PS: my version of Opera is 49.0.2725.64

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

          @yaute It means that for some reason Widevine isn't being downloaded.

          If you have Chrome or other Chromium based browser, try copying its Widevine directory to Opera's profile directory.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

            @leocg what exactly I must copy ?

            For chromium I have install the package chromium-widevine who contain:
            /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so
            /usr/share/licenses/chromium-widevine/eula_text.html

            In the the profile directory of chromuim I have this directory
            /home/xxx/.config/chromium/Profile 1/File System/Plugins/000/application_x-ppapi-widevine-cdm
            who contain:

            ➜ ...n_x-ppapi-widevine-cdm# ls
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 76 17 nov. 12:32 00/00000009
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 3,8K 17 nov. 12:32 Paths/000003.log
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 16 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/CURRENT
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 0 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/LOCK
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 14 déc. 11:22 Paths/LOG
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 17 nov. 12:30 Paths/LOG.old
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 41 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/MANIFEST-000001

            00:
            total 4,0K
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 76 17 nov. 12:32 00000009

            Paths:
            total 20K
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 3,8K 17 nov. 12:32 000003.log
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 16 20 oct. 12:42 CURRENT
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 0 20 oct. 12:42 LOCK
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 14 déc. 11:22 LOG
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 17 nov. 12:30 LOG.old
            -rw------- 1 xxx wheel 41 20 oct. 12:42 MANIFEST-000001

            In opera profile directory I have no plugins directory.
            I don't know what I must copy and where.

            Do you know where Opera download Widevine and where it copy it ? maybe I can do it manually.

            In chromium //components I have:
            SSL Error Assistant - Version : 4
            CRLSet - Version : 4194
            File Type Policies - Version : 14
            Origin Trials - Version : 0.0.0.0
            Signed Tree Heads - Version : 619

            Thanks

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

              @yaute The folder named with the version number, inside Widevine's folder located under the browser's profile directory.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @leocg last edited by

                @leocg what I do :
                ➜ ~/.config/opera# mkdir Widevine
                ➜ ~/.config/opera# cd Widevine
                ➜ ~/.config/opera/Widevine# cp -r ../../chromium/Profile\ 1/File\ System/Plugins/000 .

                I have nothing in opera://components and it doesn't work.

                Thanks

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                  @yaute There should be a Widevine folder under Opera's profile directory already.

                  0_1514978670627_widevinefolder.PNG

                  Inside of it there should be a folder with Widevine's version number. I'm on Windows but I don't think it is much different in Linux.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @leocg last edited by

                    @leocg Ok, Iwill try with another Linux in a VM.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      While I don't have Netflix, I did search for Widevine on ElementaryOS. It found the following results....

                      /home/user/.config/chromium/WidevineCdm
                      This folder is empty but may work for you.

                      /usr/lib/chromium-browser/WidevineCdm
                      Contains the manifest.json

                      Files found were....
                      /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdmadapter.so
                      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
                      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera developer/resources/widevine_config.json

                      I'm running Opera version 49.0.2725.39

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by A Former User

                        Fyi, opera looks in here for the widevine libraries

                        $ cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
                        [
                        {
                        "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so",
                        "plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
                        },
                        {
                        "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdm.so",
                        "plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
                        },
                        {
                        "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdm.so",
                        "plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
                        }
                        ]

                        And as it seems, all of them are the ones that come with the chrome packages.

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User @Guest last edited by

                          @minuteman I have no directory WidevineCdm on my arch

                          @jimunderscorep I create and copy libwidevinecdm.so & libwidevinecdmadapter.so manually into /opt/google/chrome and it work !

                          thanks guys for your help.

                          PS: in opera://components I have always nothing

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Glad I helped 🙂
                            In case anyone of the devs is reading this...

                            As we all see from the above, opera expects to find the widevice libs inside chrome's installation path. Why not add the

                            /usr/lib/chromium-browser/

                            path to the above. It is where ubuntu's chromium package installs the same libs. I mean, opera checks for the ppapi flash in various locations in order to find it, so why not look for the widevine libs elsewhere? Editing these files to add the proper path, as far as I know, breaks opera because it somehow checks the "originality" of them and fails to start.

                            And all that is just a part of a bigger discussion about customizability, e.g. the default search engines follow the same rules and cause the same problem if their file is altered.

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                            • huanglee
                              huanglee last edited by

                              Solution to this problem is simple - just turn off Opera Turbo mode. Yeah, it was that easy.

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                              • gregurbi
                                gregurbi @Guest last edited by

                                @yaute Is this solution still working for you? It worked for me for some time but now it doesn't although I have both files under /opt/google/chrome

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

                                  @yaute didn't work. I am running Manjaro with the latest Opera.
                                  I mean ffs this issue has been plaguing Opera for years, years and nobody does a thing. Netflix does not work on Opera (Linux) out of the box and this is the only single reason why I don't use this browser. I can understand that Opera does not give a damn for those poor 3% Linux users. But please do invest some of your precious time to write at least a tutorial or howto or am I asking too much?

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                                  • francehelders
                                    francehelders @Guest last edited by

                                    @tastymineraler Same thing with Ubuntu and Majanro here.
                                    Sometimes i fixed this just putting widevine files on /opt/google/chrome, but did't work now.

                                    I used Opera 52 on Ubuntu and Opera 51 on Manjaro.

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                                    • gregurbi
                                      gregurbi last edited by gregurbi

                                      @tastymineraler IMHO, any browser that is considered to compete with Chrome or Firefox should be able to play Netflix and other sites with movies. It is a big part of browsers' use nowadays and I cannot imagine a modern browser without that functionality.

                                      BTW, it works in Vivaldi out of the box.

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        I have the same problem - I think.
                                        Widevine files (libwidevinecdm.so & widevine-1.4.8.1008) are in /opt/google/chrome, I used this script to install them:
                                        https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe37f1#file-non-vivaldi-readme-md

                                        If I use a user agent switcher, Netflix loads and neither gives me a widevine error nor redirects me to the support site (https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742).
                                        But the problem is that the video is loading forever (https://imgur.com/WWyH4vt).
                                        And it doesn't matter if I have Chrome installed or not, i. e. if there's an additional libwidevinecdmadapter.so file, the video will still load forever. The widevine_config.json file is also configured correctly.

                                        I don't know what I'm doing wrong...
                                        Any help is appreciated :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

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                                        • gregurbi
                                          gregurbi last edited by gregurbi

                                          Hi, I found a solution, just follow my small how to. 🙂

                                          1. Put files libwidevinecdm and libwidevinecdmadapter to /opt/google/chrome
                                            If that folder doesn't exist then create it. If you don't have those files you can
                                            download them from my googledrive
                                            libwidevinecdm
                                            libwidevinecdmadapter
                                          2. Install User-Agent Switcher addon and setup it to chome Linux and the highest chrome number
                                          3. Watch Netflix 🙂
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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by A Former User

                                            Doesn't work for me.
                                            Netflix gives me this error: https://imgur.com/EhNtTTu .
                                            To be honest, I think I'm going to switch back to Chrome again, because it just works (+ the sync is better).
                                            Anyway, thanks for your help 🙂

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