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Add support for armv7l architecture (Raspberry Pi) #146

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James-Livesey opened this issue Feb 12, 2023 · 2 comments
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Add support for armv7l architecture (Raspberry Pi) #146

James-Livesey opened this issue Feb 12, 2023 · 2 comments

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@James-Livesey
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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I understand that this issue has been previously discussed in #23, but I believe that that issue contains now-outdated information and so is due for reconsideration.


This issue blocks LiveGTech/gShell#21.

@khwaaj
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khwaaj commented Feb 13, 2023

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 🙁

@James-Livesey
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Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! Hopefully at some point they can start supporting ARM Linux in an official capacity 🤞

I'll close this issue for now due to it being an issue for Widevine instead of this project itself.

@James-Livesey James-Livesey closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Feb 13, 2023
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