Chromium Widevine App probably doesn't work anymore

[theofficialgman]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

Google revoked older widevine versions

Description

https://bitmovin.com/google-deprecating-widevine-drm-cdm/
this app downloads an older widevine version hidden in the pi-apps repo history. the version (as obtained by doing a strings and search of the binary) is 4.10.1679.0

to my knowledge ALL widevine versions released prior to Dec 2022 have been revoked (at least on desktop platforms). so only the current version works

4.10.2557.0

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

N/A

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

No response

[theofficialgman]

@Botspot thoughts? Even if this does still work, is there any reason for this application to exist when winevine support is present by default?

[Botspot]

It used to be necessary for sites requiring a ChromeOS user agent. Since late last year however, rpi-chromium-mods has changed chromium's user-agent to mimic that of chromeOS, so the only historical benefit in my mind for keeping Chromium Widevine was in case one of us Pi-Apps devs added 64-bit support before PiOS did.

I've been a bit out of touch with Pi news lately, but as libwidevinecdm0 now works out of the box on PiOS 64-bit, I no longer see any reason to keep Chromium Widevine in Pi-Apps.

I will remove it in a few minutes.