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Lou Busch:
I installed MC 23 along side MC 21.  Amazon Prime works in MC21 but I get the dratted - "Your web browser is missing a digital rights component. Go to chrome://components and under WidevineCdm, click Check for update" error in MC 23.  I checked chrome:\\components. No "WidevineCmd" but there is a "Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 1.4.8.970"  I click "Update" I see "Status - Component not updated."  It appears to be the latest available version.
Any ideas???
Thanks,
Lou

Awesome Donkey:
Okay, first off MC doesn't use Chrome that's installed on a PC, instead it uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). I'm not sure if you can even get to chrome://components within MC when using the Chromium engine, I've never tried. However it sounds to be either a) the Widevine CDM didn't download in MC23 or b) CEF might be a few Chromium versions out-of-date (which needs to be updated occasionally to keep Widevine working) and needs to be updated.

The version of Widevine in Chrome 59 stable right now is 1.4.8.984.

Hendrik:
CEF disabled the ability to automatically piggy-back on Chromes Widevine module for licensing reasons and now require you to manually license, obtain and install Widevine. We're currently not doing that, and I'm not sure if or when we will.
So basically it will likely only work on installs where the module is already downloaded.

Awesome Donkey:

--- Quote from: Hendrik on June 26, 2017, 03:35:18 pm ---now require you to manually license, obtain and install Widevine.
--- End quote ---

Wow, sounds expensive. =\

Hendrik:
Actually Google doesn't ask any licensing fees for Widevine, however there is a lot of red tape involved, since you have to guarantee security and whatnot. DRM is just annoying.

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