Does chromium support EME on Android now?

[Tao Liu]

Hi

    I want to watch netflix with chromium on android, but with linux PC user agent, I got a "Missing WidevineCdm Component" Error on cr49. Does chromium support EME on  Android now? Can I bypass EME on Android with Linux PC UA?

Thanks,

Tao, Liu

[PhistucK]

It does not support Widevine out of the box, which is required for non-ClearKey encryptions.

And if you could bypass the encryption, everyone would have done that. ;)

☆PhistucK

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[Tao Liu]

Netflix will let you install app with android UA, but I want watch netflix with browser. Any ideas about that?

[PhistucK]

Does Chrome work?

If not, no.

☆PhistucK

[David Dorwin]

Chrome for Android has supported unprefixed EME since M42 - the same as desktop (chromestatus).

That Netflix error message is likely intended to help desktop users who encounter EME failures, but it does not apply to and is not the reason that playback does not work on Android.

[Christian Biesinger]

Chrome does but Chromium does not, I think?

-Christian

[David Dorwin]

The EME APIs are available for all brandings on all platforms. On desktop, only Chrome has Widevine. On Android, Chrome uses the platform Widevine implementation, so Widevine is available for all brandings.

[Tao Liu]

Chrome maybe OK on android，but I can't change chrome user agent，so can't try with linux pc ua on android. I enable chromium widevine with "enable_widevine=1", and change chromium ua to fixed Linux pc. Chromium on android has no widevine compnonets, but use drm with widevine plugin. With linux pc ua, netflix will call EME api, so if chromium 49 on android support EME, it will no problem. 

[David Dorwin]

Widevine is enabled for all builds by default on Android, and there is no component or plugin involved. You don't need to add enable_widevine=1; see the GN file in my previous email. I think Netflix checks more than the UA, so it is unlikely that changing the UA will make it work.

[Tao Liu]

Maybe,  but I'm failed to execute below js through devtools:

var a = [{

    distinctiveIdentifier: "not-allowed",

    videoCapabilities: [{

        contentType: 'video/mp4; codecs="avc1.640028"',

        robustness: "HW_SECURE_DECODE"

    }

    , {

        contentType: 'video/mp4; codecs="avc1.640028"',

        robustness: "SW_SECURE_DECODE"

    }

    ],

    audioCapabilities: [{

        contentType: 'audio/mp4; codecs="mp4a.40.5"',

        robustness: "SW_SECURE_CRYPTO"

    }

    ]

}

];

var b = navigator.requestMediaKeySystemAccess("com.widevine.alpha", a);

It will return "Unsupported keySystem".

[Tao Liu]

No widevine key system, only clear system in key_system_properties_map_.

[Tao Liu]

Sorry， I found content_shell doesn't add widevine in  shell_content_renderer_client.cc, I will try add it according chrome_content_renderer_client.cc.