Fedora 38 - libwidevinecdm.so could not be loaded

[ghost]

I've setup a fresh install of Fedora 38 and noticed that some streaming services were not running: Netflix and HBO Max. (Youtube is working fine)

So I launched Chrome from the terminal and noticed this error message:

[481:296:0525/124853.229406:ERROR:cdm_module.cc(114)] CDM at /home/rmoraes/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/google-chrome/WidevineCdm/4.10.2652.1/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so could not be loaded.
[481:296:0525/124853.229634:ERROR:cdm_module.cc(115)] Error: /home/rmoraes/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/google-chrome/WidevineCdm/4.10.2652.1/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so: cannot open shared object file: Operation not permitted

I looked up the libwidevinecdm.so file and got this:

/home/rmoraes/.mozilla/firefox/mnl1w508.default-release/gmp-widevinecdm/4.10.2557.0/libwidevinecdm.so
/home/rmoraes/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/google-chrome/WidevineCdm/4.10.2652.1/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.google.Chrome/x86_64/stable/ba19c40be5407bf6cac74d38defe5b13bc0e7f39198da1e8349ffcd1513b764f/files/extra/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so

The Firefox above is the one installed by default (non-flatpak) and works fine with DRM media. For the Chrome related folders here's an ls:

rmoraes@fedora ~/.var/app/com.google.Chrome/config/google-chrome/WidevineCdm/4.10.2652.1/_platform_specific/linux_x64
$ ls
total 11M
drwx------. 1 ghost  40 May 25 12:44 .
drwx------. 1 ghost  18 May 23 12:46 ..
-rw-------. 1 ghost 11M May 23 12:46 libwidevinecdm.so

and

rmoraes@fedora /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.google.Chrome/x86_64/stable/ba19c40be5407bf6cac74d38defe5b13bc0e7f39198da1e8349ffcd1513b764f/files/extra/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64
$ ls
total 12M
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root  34 May 15 14:02 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root  18 May 15 14:02 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root 12M May 15 13:57 libwidevinecdm.so

So far it's looks like everything is fine but it's not working :/

As I said before this is a fresh install. Maybe I'm missing some OS-level dependencies?

[refi64]

Probably related to flathub/com.google.ChromeDev#78.

[GlenKPeterson]

Thank you for the flatpak Chrome package!

I think I have the same issue. Around 2 weeks ago, Disney+ and Amazon Prime stopped being able to stream movies on flatpak Chrome (Youtube was unaffected). My host OS is Ubuntu 22.04. I installed Chrome through apt and Disney+ and Amazon Prime both work there, but not in the Flatpak.

Flatpak Chrome:
Version 113.0.5672.126 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

Ubuntu 22.04 apt Chrome:
Version 114.0.5735.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Maybe the Flatpak version of Chrome is just out of date? I believe I have the latest version available from Flathub (flatpak update says so).

[GlenKPeterson]

Same issue with Google Chrome Version 114.0.5735.133 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit) Flatpak.