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Ungoogled layer breaks Chromium DRM reading

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#1,831 opened on Feb 8, 2022

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Description

Describe the bug Can't play video on disneyplus.com Potential DRM related issue. It works fine with the Chromium version, ungoogled-chromium is built on the top of.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to https://www.disneyplus.com/
  2. Obviously, you need an account to sign in
  3. Click on Play for any movie
  4. An error message is displayed: Error. Contact Disney+ support (error code 83)

Expected behavior The movie starts

Environment (please complete the following information):

  • OS/Platform and version: Linux, Mageia 8 x86_64
  • ungoogled-chromium version: 98.0.4758.80

Additional context Package built on the top of the official Chromium package of Mageia. Chromium works fine. Flag enable_widevine=true is set. Codecs are installed. Widevine is packaged as well.

Console log attached, complaining about DRM_SYSTEM_ACCESS_FAILED: www.disneyplus.com-1644315641401.log

Another user has confirmed the same issue with Amazon Prime video.

Ungoogled-chromium version on Flatpak exhibits the same behavior, both for Disney+ and Prime.

Is it the expected behavior?

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Research direction
Investigate how widevine is configured in ungoogled chromium vs Chromium, focusing on the `enable widevine` flag and library loading paths.
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ccpp
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