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(Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port

Contributed by rueda on 2026-01-17 from the veni-vidi-vine dept.

In a move likely to be welcomed by users of streaming video services,
Robert Nagy (robert@) has added a port for OpenWV (a free and
open-source reimplementation of Google's Widevine CDM), and enabled
its use with the chromium port:

    CVSROOT:        /cvs
    Module name:    ports
    Changes by:     robert@cvs.openbsd.org  2026/01/15 12:24:33

    Log message:
        import openwv-1.1.3;

        OpenWV is a free and open-source reimplementation of Google's Widevine Content
        Decryption Module (CDM), the portion of the Widevine DRM system that runs in
        your browser, obtains content keys for protected media, and decrypts the media
        using those keys. OpenWV is a drop-in replacement for Google's official,
        proprietary CDM and implements the same shared library CDM.

        tested with Disney+

        ok aja@

        Status:

        Vendor Tag: robert
        Release Tags:       robert_20260115

        N ports/multimedia/openwv/Makefile
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/crates.inc
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/distinfo
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/patches/patch-Cargo_toml
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/patches/patch-src_config_rs
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/patches/patch-src_openwv_rs
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/pkg/DESCR
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/pkg/README
        N ports/multimedia/openwv/pkg/PLIST

        No conflicts created by this import

Note, however, the caveat in the pkg-readme file:

    [...]
    OpenWV does _not_ come with a device identity and will not work without one.
    A device identity, typically stored as a [.wvd] file, contains metadata about
    a Widevine client as well as a private key that authenticates that client to
    Widevine license servers.
    If you want to use OpenWV, you must obtain an appropriate wvd file yourself,
    and copy it to /etc/openwv/widevine_device.wvd

    Please refer to the project's homepage for more information.
    [...]

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Comments

 1. By James (jturner) on 2026-01-18 21:49

    The link to the pkg-readme file seems bad. Try curling it, it
    sends you to theannoyingsite.com...

    Reply

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