OpenELEC with widevine (netflix etc) support.
#1
I just wanted to point to chemstar's clever work, making a chromium browser addon for OpenELEC X86_64 that supports widevine, so can do netflix.

http://openelec.tv/forum/128-addons/7664...est-stable

I can confirm netflix works, although not integrated into netflixbmc yet (I have asked for some pointers on how to do that here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1993603 if you want to follow along).
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#2
I think that's probably worthy of a "whoop, whoop!", is it not?
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#3
I thought so, I am surprised it hasn't got more attention!
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#4
Nice... I've been meaning to look into it myself as well. Surely going to test that. Would be awesome if I could trade Kodibuntu for OpenELEC, greatly simplifies maintenance.

Not clear whether it runs fullscreen by default (read the OpenELEC forum topic), but I suppose it does?
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#5
At the moment when you start the addon it simply opens chromium like it would on a desktop, complete with address bar etc.

I have tried changing the script.sh in chrome launcher addon to point to
Code:
/storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chomium/bin/chromium "$@"
but it crashes. I tried numerous other combinations but none worked. At work now but more work to be done over the weekend.
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#6
OK. On Kodibuntu, you need a WM to get Chromium to go fullscreen, and OpenELEC has none, so that's what I was wondering about.
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#7
Openelec does have a Wm. Fluxbox.
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(2015-04-30, 04:52)nickr Wrote: I just wanted to point to chemstar's clever work, making a chromium browser addon for OpenELEC X86_64 that supports widevine, so can do netflix.

http://openelec.tv/forum/128-addons/7664...est-stable

I can confirm netflix works, although not integrated into netflixbmc yet (I have asked for some pointers on how to do that here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1993603 if you want to follow along).

Still cant get netflix to work. Can confrim that Widevine is enabled (and always allowed) in chrome://plugins, but when I start streaming a movie, chromium reports that Widevine has been crashed Sad Any idea ? Thanks in advance...
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#9
Hi All,

I am new to tvhead. My plan is to setup a live video streaming. OS is Ubuntu Server. I have a server which has 2 NIC cards. One NIC is coming from the other server (having media card ) which will be serving as a storage to ubuntu server. Ubuntu server's another NIC card is having public IP whose URL will be used as a live media name.

Please help me how I should go about.

Regards
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#10
(2015-08-28, 08:33)tdhendup Wrote: Hi All,

I am new to tvhead. My plan is to setup a live video streaming. OS is Ubuntu Server. I have a server which has 2 NIC cards. One NIC is coming from the other server (having media card ) which will be serving as a storage to ubuntu server. Ubuntu server's another NIC card is having public IP whose URL will be used as a live media name.

Please help me how I should go about.

Regards

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(2015-08-28, 08:23)tuan.dinh Wrote:
(2015-04-30, 04:52)nickr Wrote: I just wanted to point to chemstar's clever work, making a chromium browser addon for OpenELEC X86_64 that supports widevine, so can do netflix.

http://openelec.tv/forum/128-addons/7664...est-stable

I can confirm netflix works, although not integrated into netflixbmc yet (I have asked for some pointers on how to do that here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1993603 if you want to follow along).

Still cant get netflix to work. Can confrim that Widevine is enabled (and always allowed) in chrome://plugins, but when I start streaming a movie, chromium reports that Widevine has been crashed Sad Any idea ? Thanks in advance...

More logs: I manually run chromium (4.3.1), first got this:

Code:
[7956:7956:0831/123948:ERROR:url_pattern_set.cc(240)] Invalid url pattern: chrome://print/*
libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/va/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[7976:7976:0831/123948:FATAL:sandbox_seccomp_bpf_linux.cc(206)] Check failed: policy->PreSandboxHook().
[7956:7971:0831/123948:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(134)] Failed to launch GPU process.
[7956:7971:0831/124001:ERROR:channel.cc(300)] RawChannel read error (connection broken)

Accessing netflix.com and browsing are fine. Soon I start the playback, it returns error on screen, and on verbose I got this:

Code:
[8220:8220:0831/124125:ERROR:ppapi_thread.cc(289)] Failed to load Pepper module from /storage/.xbmc/addons/browser.chromium/bin/libwidevinecdmadapter.so (error: /storage/.xbmc/addons/browser.chromium/bin/libwidevinecdmadapter.so: cannot open shared object file: Operation not permitted)
[8040:8040:0831/124125:ERROR:webplugin_delegate_proxy.cc(314)] Plugin crashed on start

I changed the permission of all file to 755 but still doesnt work Sad

Any idea how to fix it to get netflix to work ? thx guys, any comments appreciated....
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