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When attempting to build our Electron application for armv7l (ARM 32-bit) devices, there is no armv7l release of Electron that includes support for Widevine.
Electron apps run perfectly fine on Raspberry Pi devices due to having build support for armv7l. Widevine also runs on the armv7l architecture and so is installable on Raspberry Pi.
It would be hugely beneficial if this fork of Electron supported armv7l as it would enable Raspberry Pis to run Electron applications that can access a number of DRM streaming platforms.
I understand that this issue has been previously discussed in #23, but I believe that that issue contains now-outdated information and so is due for reconsideration.
Unfortunately there is still no official Widevine CDM for any Linux version on ARM, which means we can't support it (and it is not available through the Component Updater). The CDM which is available for raspbian, i.e. through the libwidevinecdm0 APT package, is not official or sanctioned by Google. AFAICT it comes from ChromeOS and using it has potential legal implications.
We actually specifically asked about this again a couple of weeks back, in another context, and there are currently no plans to support this near term. The audience is simply too small to warrant the investment required 🙁
When attempting to build our Electron application for
armv7l
(ARM 32-bit) devices, there is noarmv7l
release of Electron that includes support for Widevine.Electron apps run perfectly fine on Raspberry Pi devices due to having build support for
armv7l
. Widevine also runs on thearmv7l
architecture and so is installable on Raspberry Pi.It would be hugely beneficial if this fork of Electron supported
armv7l
as it would enable Raspberry Pis to run Electron applications that can access a number of DRM streaming platforms.I understand that this issue has been previously discussed in #23, but I believe that that issue contains now-outdated information and so is due for reconsideration.
This issue blocks LiveGTech/gShell#21.
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