New subject: [Bug 54561] Google Chrome unable to load widevine_cdm.dll 4.10.2557.0 (and up)

23 Feb 2023


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54561
Bug ID: 54561
           Summary: Google Chrome unable to load widevine_cdm.dll
                    4.10.2557.0 (and up)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 8.2
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: ionic@ionic.de
      Distribution: ---
Created attachment 74101
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=74101
WINEDEBUG=warn+all /usr/bin/wine-vanilla-9999
GoogleChromePortable64/App/Chrome-bin/chrome.exe --no-sandbox
Google Chrome is currently unable to load widevine_cdm.dll as of version
4.10.2557.0.
Version 4.10.2449.0 of widevine_cdm.dll (for instance shipped/bundled with
Google Chrome 105.0.5195.127) will load just fine, but is now useless, since
most streaming services have blocked this old version by now.
I've tested with wine 8.2 (I'm currently using git master from about a week
ago, built 20.02.2023), but the behavior shows also up with older wine
versions, down to 7.0.
My main use case is to watch content on Amazon Prime in Full HD resolution -
which is now impossible.
I'm also attaching a warn+all log, but the relevant part, as far as I can tell,
is this one:
033c:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception
(code=c0000005) raised
033c:warn:module:process_attach Initialization of L"widevinecdm.dll" failed
[824:828:0223/065058.326:ERROR:cdm_module.cc(114)] CDM at
C:\users\ionic\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\WidevineCdm\4.10.2557.0_platform_specific\win_x64\widevinecdm.dll could
not be loaded.
[824:828:0223/065058.326:ERROR:cdm_module.cc(115)] Error: 998
Error 998, conveniently, is ERROR_NOACCESS, which doesn't seem surprising given
the previous access violation.
I honestly don't know if this issue is caused by wine itself, especially since
older versions of the widevine library still load just fine.
For testing this, I recommend installing the current version of Google Chrome,
either normally or using the (64 Bit testing) version of Google Chrome Portable
and starting video playback on https://www.nuevodevel.com/nuevo/showcase/drm ,
which embeds the free Big Buck Bunny video in a Widevine-based DRM setting.
Note, however, that downgrading to widevine 4.10.2449.0 will make it work - but
Amazon Prime will complain about an outdated browser version (which is a lie,
because it really [also] checks the widevine version) and refuse to play any
content.
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[Bug 54561] New: Google Chrome unable to load widevine_cdm.dll 4.10.2557.0 (and up)