88 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
88 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
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<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon.png" sizes="196x196">
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<style>
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* {
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box-sizing: border-box;
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overflow-wrap: break-word;
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}
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main {
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max-width: 36rem;
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margin: 0 auto;
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}
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h1 {
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margin-bottom: 10px;
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}
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code, kbd {
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background-color: #ddd;
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}
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.asterism, footer {
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margin: 2rem 0;
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text-align: center;
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}
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pre {
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overflow-x: auto;
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background-color: #eee;
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border-radius: 5px;
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padding: 10px;
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}
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</style>
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<title>Playing Widevine (DRM protected) videos on Chimera Linux</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<main>
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<p><a href="/">Index</a></p>
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<article>
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<header>
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<h1>Playing Widevine (DRM protected) videos on Chimera Linux</h1>
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<small><time>2024-08-02</time></small>
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</header>
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<p>
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Widevine CDMs (Content Decryption Modules) are distributed as
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proprietary binaries compiled for glibc and won't run on musl systems,
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like Chimera Linux or the musl version of Void Linux.
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</p>
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<p>
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On Chimera Linux,
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<a href="https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/blob/3ee8bb258121e6eebc405b8f6d2143a641a6037d/contrib/firefox/files/vendor.js#L14">
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Firefox is configured by default</a> to not prompt to download Widevine
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when needed like it normally will. You can override this in
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<code>about:config</code> but the plugin will just crash under musl.
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</p>
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<h2>Workaround</h2>
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<p>
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The easiest way to get around this seems to be to
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<a href="https://chimera-linux.org/docs/configuration/flatpak">
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install a browser with Flatpak</a>,
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which are compiled with glibc and ships with the environment they need, even
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on musl systems.
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</p>
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<p>
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Annoyingly, while running an instance of musl Firefox, starting Firefox with
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<code>flatpak run</code> will not start a second Firefox process
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but instead open a new window of your musl Firefox. Firefox has a flag for
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that though: <code>flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --new-instance</code>
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starts a new instance of Flatpak Firefox.
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</p>
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</article>
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</main>
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<footer>❦</footer>
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</body>
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</html>
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