It don't works.

[jyahyah]

I compiled the source code but don't works.
I received the error 'no support for your browser' or 'firefox error'.
Thanks.

[gort818]

What service were you using? I just tested on Netflix and had no such issue.

[jyahyah]

Netflix. I compiled with Qt 5.9, and the interface worked normally, but when I start a video, I get an error that the browser is not compatible, or when I try the 18.10 widevine script, it says there was an error in Firefox. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.

[WammKD]

I can attest the same; I dunno if @jyahyah is seeing the exact same as below but this is what I'm getting.

Before building and installing QtWebFlix, I had only run the widevine.sh script so I could try playing Netflix through Qutebrowser; I got the exact same error message, then, so I'm guessing that it might be an issue with the Widevine library files?

Of note, I also did try running ./qtwebflix --register-pepper-plugins="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/ppapi/libwidevinecdmadapter.so; application/x-ppapi-widevine-cdm" and got the same result, still.

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, as well.

[gort818]

@WammKD What version of qtwebengine do you have installed?

Also I might have to update the widevine.sh script.. I will look into it.

[WammKD]

Hey, @gort818. It looks like I have version 5.9.5; I just installed the version shipped by Ubuntu in order to get the proprietary codecs.

[WammKD]

Dunno if you've had a chance to look at this but I attempted again, on 20.04, with the same results.

I decided to try installing Google Chrome itself and extract from there and stumbled upon https://github.com/proprietary/chromium-widevine.

After installing Chrome with the instructions they provide, I just copied over the libwidevinecdm.so file from /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so (I didn't see the libwidevinecdmadapter.so file) to where your script installs it and then things worked for me in Qutebrowser.

If this is the stemming issue (and, seeing as it's just us two reporting an issue, perhaps not (or maybe there just aren't a lot of Ubuntu users using this…? Maybe since Ubuntu tends towards GTK)), perhaps it's a version issue? I noticed the .deb being downloaded is version 66 while the version of chrome that got installed on my machine is 84.

Anyway, figured I'd shared what I've seen, so far, on the off-chance it's any helpful to you.

[oscartbeaumont]

I have the same problem and was only able to get it working in a VM running an Arch-based distro. I tried an Ubuntu 20.04 fresh install and following the instructions could not get it working.