Widevine not detected even though Widevine is Enabled in settings

[shakeelansari63]

I have widevine enabled in setting, still Netflix and other video streaming sites complain for DRM.

Widevine is Enabled -

I have tried to Update widevine from brave://components

But still getting Protected Content error on Netflix

This is version of Brave installed from Flathub

Let me know if you need any more detail

[shakeelansari63]

Ran Brave from terminal and I see this error -

May help you debugging the issue.

[rany2]

This seems like a Zypak issue to me, does it work if you run with --disable-sandbox?

[shakeelansari63]

Nope, --disable-sandbox option does not help. Same error

[archerallstars]

This issue is still happening on Brave v1.65.126, with Widevine Content Decryption Module v4.10.2710.0.

[rany2]

BTW, I was mistaken; the flag is now --no-sandbox. Please try that instead

[archerallstars]

@rany2 Widevine works with --no-sandbox flag. I tested with Prime Video.

[rany2]

@refi64 can you take a look, it seems like Zypak is broken with Widevine again. I'm setting ExposeWidevine to true in cobalt so I think it should be working?

[archerallstars]

What I found as a workaround is to allow filesystem=host-os, as shown in the screenshot below:

But I don't know what's the security impact of allowing this. Does this make it less secure than the non-Flatpak version? But this should be more secure than the --no-sandbox flag, right?

[rany2]

@archerallstars It's for sure more secure than --no-sandbox