Saturday, October 12, 2019

Chromium to play Netflix videos on Debian Testing

If you have already Chrome installed then:

sudo ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so

If you don't then:

Check current available version of libwidevine: https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/current.txt .

Download and extract the current version:

wget https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip
unzip 1.4.8.1008-linux-x64.zip

In the extracted folder:

sudo mv libwidevinecdm.so /usr/lib/chromium
sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so

Then restart the browser and Netflix should be able to play movies.