Widevine Plugin For CentOS 6?

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Does anyone know of a CentOS 6 compiled version of the widevine DRM plugin?

With Firefox 60ESR, Netflix (e.g.) installs a version in your
~/.mozilla/firefox/(profile name)gmp-widevinecdm/ directory but it has the following library failures in ‘ldd’ output:

./libwidevinecdm.so: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.5′ not found (required by ./libwidevinecdm.so)
./libwidevinecdm.so: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14′
not found (required by ./libwidevinecdm.so)
./libwidevinecdm.so: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15′
not found (required by ./libwidevinecdm.so)

5 thoughts on - Widevine Plugin For CentOS 6?

  • To be clear .. I don’t know if the compiled version of firefox we shipped has a DRM widevine that will work with netflix .. the error you are getting seems to happen because of where:

    libwidevinecdm.so

    was compiled (against which glibc-devel).

    so .. maybe adding in the google widevine and somehow disabling the built in firefox one might work .. OR .. disabling the google version might work, etc.

  • I will also point out that netflix ‘just works’ on the CentOS-7 version of the new firefox released (firefox-60.1.0-4.el7.CentOS.x86_64). I
    just installed it as a test.

  • It appears firefox downloads the google library each time it is requested, and the one it downloads is compiled against the wrong libraries.

    I realize this is not a CentOS support issue per se, I was inquiring if anyone in the community, or upstream, had dealt with this before.

    I understand the CentOS 7 version works fine, however we are still running CentOS 6.

  • I agree, we should apply directly to one of these three letter agencies to have their code straightened up ;-) I don’t know which one though.

    Valeri