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Unable to play Netflix videos due to missing Wildvine module #10122

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Geordon opened this issue Jun 6, 2020 · 3 comments
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Unable to play Netflix videos due to missing Wildvine module #10122

Geordon opened this issue Jun 6, 2020 · 3 comments
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closed/works-for-me webcompat/not-shields-related Sites are breaking because of something other than Shields.

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@Geordon
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Geordon commented Jun 6, 2020

Description

Unable to use Brave to play Netflix videos due to no Wildvine Content Decryption Module

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Log into Netflix from Brave browser
  2. Attempt to watch any video
  3. Get shown attached error message

Actual result:

Screen Shot 2020-06-05 at 8 10 20 PM

Expected result:

Ability to play Netflix video

Reproduces how often:

Every time

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 1.9.76 Chromium: 81.0.4044.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 8c6c7ba89cc9453625af54f11fd83179e23450fa-refs/branch-heads/4044@{#999}
OS macOS Version 10.15.5 (Build 19F101)
JavaScript V8 8.1.307.32
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Other Additional Information:

  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

No

Miscellaneous Information:

Netflix troubleshooting indicates to make sure that you're using an "official version of Chrome"

@ryanbr
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ryanbr commented Jun 6, 2020

Tested with a new profile of Brave, after logging in. I'll get this popup:

netflix

Also can be configured via brave://settings/extensions

settings

I would start by clearing the cookies/site-settings, and ensure brave://settings/extensions has the Widevine option enabled.

@ryanbr ryanbr added the webcompat/not-shields-related Sites are breaking because of something other than Shields. label Jun 6, 2020
@Geordon
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Geordon commented Jun 9, 2020

That did it. Thank you!

@anilthapa44600
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anilthapa44600 commented Jul 6, 2020

That works for me too. Thank you!

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