What about to enable widevine on Firefox running on FreeBSD ?

[Marietto2008]

Hello.

We are trying to enable widevine for Firefox on FreeBSD. Widevine support appears be compiled and the instructions from :

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nrb6fk/fix_widevine_content_decryption_module_wont/

mostly work (in combination with media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled/media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible keys), but Firefox immediately deletes the files, then it can't find the cdm because it just deleted it. So that is the part that has to be located and patched.

The bug that I'm talking about is explained here :

https://github.com/i-rinat/gmp-widevine/blob/master/how-to-enable-on-firefox-47.md

where you say :

For some reason Firefox could try to remove files in 1.4.8.885 directory. To prevent that you may remove write bit from directory permissions (chmod a-w 1.4.8.885), and also make the directory owned by root user.). So,it has never been fixed...

They talk about the bug even here :

https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/watching-spotify-and-listening-to-netflix-in-2023.90695/post-626087

It should be, but somebody would have to patch Firefox to enable Widevine. Neither me nor arrowd (who worked on the ports) are going to do it.

Plus,can you give a look here ?

---> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/firefox-stopped-to-support-drm.92809/post-649380

here there is the full discussion between me and the FreeBSD system admins with the goal to enable widevine on Firefox on FreeBSD.