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<title>Playing Widevine (DRM protected) videos on Chimera Linux</title>
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<h1>Playing Widevine (DRM protected) videos on Chimera&nbsp;Linux</h1>
<small><time>2024-08-02</time></small>
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<p>
Widevine CDMs (Content Decryption Modules) are distributed as
proprietary binaries compiled for glibc and won't run on musl systems,
like Chimera Linux or the musl version of Void Linux.
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On Chimera Linux,
<a href="https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/blob/3ee8bb258121e6eebc405b8f6d2143a641a6037d/contrib/firefox/files/vendor.js#L14">
Firefox is configured by default</a> to not prompt to download Widevine
when needed like it normally will. You can override this in
<code>about:config</code> but the plugin will just crash under musl.
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<h2>Workaround</h2>
<p>
The easiest way to get around this seems to be to
<a href="https://chimera-linux.org/docs/configuration/flatpak">
install a browser with Flatpak</a>,
which are compiled with glibc and ships with the environment they need, even
on musl systems.
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<p>
Annoyingly, while running an instance of musl Firefox, starting Firefox with
<code>flatpak run</code> will not start a second Firefox process
but instead open a new window of your musl Firefox. Firefox has a flag for
that though: <code>flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --new-instance</code>
starts a new instance of Flatpak Firefox.
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<h2>Blog</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="/blog/2024-08-02_chimera-linux-widevine.html"><small>2024-08-82: </small>Playing Widevine (DRM protected) videos on Chimera Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/2023-01-28_remap-prtsc.html"><small>2023-01-28: </small>Remap PrtSc to Meta/Super</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/2022-12-05_buggy-trackpoint.html"><small>2022-12-05: </small>Workaround for broken TrackPoint</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/2022-05-09_this-website.html"><small>2022-05-09: </small>This website</a></li>