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Forums › Home Theatre (including HTPC and EPG Collector) › RPI DRM TVNZ - Neon -Netflix Widevine stops working ?
ezbee

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#289434 5-Sep-2021 16:41
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In case anyone been hit by this and wondering whats going on.
Google has very helpfully revoked all older widevine versions, and their newest binary does not work with the glibc that osmc and (apparently) rasberypi is uses.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=318893&p=1909757&hilit=widevine#p1909757

 

So busted as it were. My 2G RPI4 stopped playing DRM content.

 

Not sure what the easiest and most expeditious way around this. 

 

If anyone has found distributions or more convenient ways around this please add your suggestions of what works.

 

Might have to swapout my RPI4 for an old Laptop, which I have temporarily setup.

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ezbee

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  #2774966 8-Sep-2021 20:59
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Raspberry PI PI-OS DRM issues has been solved and usual update will fix things.
I have tried out 

 

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

 

Again and this time there is new update applied and everything is golden.
Netflix is back and all ok.

 

RPI Forums
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=318893&p=1910851#p1910748

 

On other possible solutions in case info is any use to anyone else.
Oh I found the issue with Netflix on AndroidTV Linage for Pi was that sideload gives you SD resolution only.
Actually it was a worse hack as it was sideload of normal Android App, the AndroidTV one won't load, for me.
TVNZ and Neon looked full HD. Netflix more fussy that Pi is not official platform for AndroidTV.

 

I did also look at RaspEX with Kodi, but turned out to be a bit of a process to get running, and then Netflix setup a bit too much for me.

 

Anyway Pi-OS is all ok now. 

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