NO VIDEO PLAYBACK PROBLEM - WIDEVINE UPDATE - ARM DEVICES ONLY (Raspberry and similar)

No video playback problem

This problem concerns ONLY and exclusively devices with ARM architecture.

The recently new released version of the Widevine library (4.10.2252.0) prevents video playback on your device, this is because of a lack of support, to enable your system to use this new version you must update it and/or make some specific changes.

Currently there are some solutions that do not cover all use cases, i will try to keep this page updated to include future new solutions.

How to do (easy way)

Downgrade the Widevine library (all Kodi OS and versions)

These steps are required only pre-existent Kodi installations, otherwise in new Kodi installation it will be executed automatically.

• Open add-on Expert settings
• Select InputStream Helper settings
• In the new settings window select (Re)install widevine

How to use the new Widevine release

LibreELEC (Kodi 19)

LibreELEC has implemented the support from LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 BETA5 release

CoreELEC (Kodi 19)

CoreELEC has implemented the support from CoreELEC 19.2-Matrix_rc2

OSMC (Kodi 19)

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/widevine-add-ons-stopped-working-from-01-09/90684

Linux operative systems like Raspbian etc… (Status unknown)

We are talking about cases where Kodi is running as a stand-alone application. Currently i am not aware of a solution, if anyone knows it, please leave feedback.

More info on this and others OS

Try follow this page: https://www.matthuisman.nz/2021/05/widevine-arm-broken.html

[jon10220]

Hello

xbian works great with the new Widevine 4.10.2252.0, you need to update your xbian to bullseye.

Old Widevine is revorked and not working at the moment

[ostanislaw]

I’m using Raspbian 9.13 with Kodi standalone and few days ago it was not working but today it’s working again with the solution provided in the issue #1154 by downgrading Wide Vine from 4.10.2252.0 to 5.10.1679.0.

wget https://k.slyguy.xyz/.decryptmodules/widevine/4.10.1679.0-linux-armv7.so --output-document /tmp/libwidevinecdm.so
# sha1 : d5ee489d5c409ff6cb423f318a23dba71ff2f2b0
cp -a /home/kodi/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so /tmp/libwidevinecdm.so.bak
sudo install  /tmp/libwidevinecdm.so --preserve-timestamps --owner kodi --group kodi --mode 0744 --no-target-directory /home/kodi/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so

Playing a Netflix video works well.

I’m using raspberry pi3 with OSMC (debian+kodi distro) Netflix works well for me too. No need to manually downgrade, simply after updating InputStream Helper to v0.5.5 and choosing (Re)install widevine it checks that the system does not support new widevine lib and prompts to install the older 4.10.1679.0.