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Manual Widevine installation

Bruno Passeri edited this page Nov 14, 2019 · 1 revision

These instructions are not necessary and are documented purely for completeness.

Windows

  • download and install Google Chrome portable of the same architechture as Kodi (x86/x64)
  • copy widevine.dll from <Chrome path>\App\Chrome-bin\<version>\WidevineCdm\_platform_specific\win_<x86|_x64> to %AppData%\Kodi\cdm (create the folder, if it doesn't exist)

Linux

  • download Google Chrome
  • open google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb with some archive manager
  • extract ./opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so to ~/.kodi/cdm (create the folder, if it doesn't exist)

LibreELEC

Please use the guides provided by Milhouse at kodi.tv:

OSMC

Please use the guides provided by gcm at osmc.tv:

Android

Needs no Widevine library, it's already included in the firmware.

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