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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2022 21:18:03 +0200
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        JV <jv.social@pm.me>
Cc:        "freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Any update on widevine?
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 05:57:26PM +0000, JV wrote:
> Recently moved to FreeBSD, lack of widevine support just crept up on
> me today. The last I see it mentioned as unsupported is about 2 years
> ago. Has there been any movement in this space?

Widevine is a closed source product and is not shipped with Chromium.

As a workaround you can use Marcel Kaiser's linux-browser-installer [1]
to download and install Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi and Edge. The installer
first installs Ubuntu in a chroot and then the browser of your choice.


[1] https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer



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