DRM for Firefox

[amethyst]

Some streaming sites need these components to be installed (Digital Rights Management I think it stands for). Does anyone know how big these downloads are, I have limited data.

[bigpup]

I do not think you need to download and install anything.

In Firefox settings you need to have DRM enabled.

You may encounter sites where content playback is not possible without DRM enabled.
You can always turn DRM playback on again by opening the Firefox Settings General panel and, under Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content, putting a check mark next to Play DRM-controlled content.

[amethyst]

I do not think you need to download and install anything.

In Firefox settings you need to have DRM enabled.

You may encounter sites where content playback is not possible without DRM enabled.
You can always turn DRM playback on again by opening the Firefox Settings General panel and, under Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content, putting a check mark next to Play DRM-controlled content.

To have it enabled the components needs to be downloaded. It is downloading (automatically) with a message displaying in this regard. I've stopped it as who knows how big the download is going to be?

[rockedge]

@amethyst What is attempting to download? Is it Widevine and CDM modules? Perhaps we can see in a repo what the Widevone package size is.

Though I ran across this message on the Mozilla site : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

Note: Google Widevine ended support for 32-bit Linux on May 31, 2021. Only 64-bit Linux is supported.

[mikewalsh]

@amethyst :-

As rockedge has mentioned above, 32-bit WideVine no longer functions. WideVine is a proprietary Google product which the industry has standardised on (read; there are NO other commercial alternatives that will actually work, since everything is coded to work with WideVine & nothing else). Google deprecated and deactivated the 32-bit build almost 3 years ago.

That said - and assuming you're using the 64-bit build of Firefox - the actual download is around 11 MB. After installation, inside your profile you'll find a new directory called "gmp-widevine-cdm". Inside, you'll find a numbered directory, and within this you'll find the components.

Although I don't use Firefox very often, I have to admit to liking Mozilla's implementation of WideVine. You tick the checkbox in Settings, it downloads and installs the components. You untick the checkbox, the components are henceforth deleted. With any of the Chromium-based clones, to remove it you need to physically go into the browser directory in the file-system and manually delete it. If you want to replace it, you then need to "borrow" the WidevineCDM directory from a current build of Chrome, since only Chrome comes with it OOTB.

Mike.

[Chelsea80]

@ amethyst

I might be completely off beam here, however -

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Firefox > Settings > General

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For info on DRM click on Learn more

Best regards

Chelsea80

[amethyst]

@amethyst :-

As rockedge has mentioned above, 32-bit WideVine no longer functions. WideVine is a proprietary Google product which the industry has standardised on (read; there are NO other commercial alternatives that will actually work, since everything is coded to work with WideVine & nothing else). Google deprecated and deactivated the 32-bit build almost 3 years ago.

That said - and assuming you're using the 64-bit build of Firefox - the actual download is around 11 MB. After installation, inside your profile you'll find a new directory called "gmp-widevine-cdm". Inside, you'll find a numbered directory, and within this you'll find the components.

Although I don't use Firefox very often, I have to admit to liking Mozilla's implementation of WideVine. You tick the checkbox in Settings, it downloads and installs the components. You untick the checkbox, the components are henceforth deleted. With any of the Chromium-based clones, to remove it you need to physically go into the browser directory in the file-system and manually delete it. If you want to replace it, you then need to "borrow" the WidevineCDM directory from a current build of Chrome, since only Chrome comes with it OOTB.

Mike.

Yes, it's gmp-widevine. I have a slightly older Firefox 32-bit and this downloads automatically. It's a site with archived material for streaming. It seems the components have been downloaded partially. I'll let it download fully (now that I know the size) and check if it works otherwise it's going to have to be 64-bit firefox. Cheers.

[bigpup]

Well,
I guess it depends on what version of Firefox.

I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Firefox 64bit.

The WideVine was already in it as a plugin.

Or it got added as part of an update to the Firefox I did download, which was not exactly the latest.