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Waydroid and the DRM issue | How to play DRM protected videos on Waydroid? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I managed to install waydroid after a long and rather stressful installation process, but now that I have installed it, I am realizing that since Waydroid doesn't come with DRM software (or malware) installed with it, it won't play no videos, which is one of the reasons I installed it. Is there a way I can run drm protected videos on Wayland?

Also, what's the likelihood that when I install drm and try to play it, it would just disappear since it is not technically a phone?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In theory Waydroid could use the native DRM implementation already built into your device, if applicable of course. I don't know if it does, but there's no technical reason why it couldn't. Waydroid just runs in a container, it's not that special. I believe ChromeOS can use DRM, but I'm not sure if Windows 11 can too.

It's possible you'll need some kind of wrapper to translate whatever DRM API your device provides into something Android can live with. Waydroid can install some version of WideVine through Magisk and a lot of messing about, though I doubt you'll be able to get much more than 720p out of most streaming services with something like that. You won't be able to pass SafetyNet or any other device attestation check.

Your ability to watch DRM'd video will at most match your ability to watch that DRM'd video on Chrome (Firefox often gets treated worse for some reason).