Virgin Media TV Anywhere streaming on linux?

Dáire Fagan

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Mar 15, 2020, 5:21:59 PM3/15/20

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Has anyone managed to get the Virgin Media TV Anywhere service streaming successfully on linux? If so could you please share how.

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Donal Hunt

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Mar 15, 2020, 5:31:53 PM3/15/20

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I haven't looked at it in years but they relied on the Widevine DRM plugins at one point to protect the content. Widevine has been an issue for Linux users for many years (little to no support).

Not sure what they are using these days.

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 21:22, Dáire Fagan <daire...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone managed to get the Virgin Media TV Anywhere service streaming successfully on linux? If so could you please share how.

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Dáire Fagan

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Mar 15, 2020, 5:54:48 PM3/15/20

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Thanks for input.

I followed this guide: https://www.andreafortuna.org/2019/09/24/how-to-install-latest-widevine-plugin-on-chromium/

And then confirmed:

but I am a still receiving the same error.

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