Widevine not installed or being detected in MacOS Catalina 10.15 (resolved)

[ptewari]

widevine is not in chrome://components/ and any website
netflix, hulu, amazon-prime, spotify etc … is prompting to install this extension.

Brave Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS: MAC OS Catalina 10.15

I have

elabled
and I do not see any puzzle icon in the url bar when I visit these DRM websites.

I have uninstalled and re-installed brave multiple times, created new profiles multiple times.

Please suggest any solution.

These did not help at all:

Netflix not detecting widevine cdm

Description of the issue: Netflix does not detect widevine cdm even after accepting to install/run it How can this issue be reproduced? 1.Navigate to www.netflix.com 2.Try to stream something 3.??? 4.Profit Expected result: Netflix recognizes widevine cdm Brave Version( check About Brave):Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit) **Additional Information: I tried to install widevine cdm multiple times, by creating new users. It does not work. **

Widevinecdm PROBLEM! TOO HARD TO SOLVE!

I can’t watch movies on Netflix due to the widevinecdm is missing, and I had tried all the method on this site and none of them work! I opened spotify.com, primevideo.com,… but the widevinecdm still not promt! I love this browser but why the hell this problem is so hard to solve?

"Install Widevine" icon doesn't show up

Description of the issue: When visiting a site containing protected content (Spotify, Netflix), I’m unable to view it - instead, I get a page saying I’m missing Widevine (more or less). I tried the support page, but in my case the puzzle icon I’m supposed to click to install Widevine never appears, nor can I see Widevine in brave://components How can this issue be reproduced? Go to Netflix’s webpage Try watching something See no icon that’d allow you to enable Widevine Expected result: Be…

https://community.brave.com/t/cant-install-update-the-widevine-component-in-brave-browser/87361
There are more links, but I could not post. And then I stopped looking. Please help.

[merlaux]

@ptewari See if the steps listed in this link help you solve the problem. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023851591-How-do-I-view-DRM-protected-content-

[ptewari]

Thanks for the reply but I already mentioned on my post that

@ptewari

and I do not see any puzzle icon in the url bar when I visit these DRM websites.

[merlaux]

I just noticed that you are using MacOS Catalina. I am still using Mojave and just went through the process outlined in that link to start watching netflix. (I have been using safari for all video streaming until now.) I know Catalina has not been the most elegant upgrade for Mac (buggy) so I have yet to upgrade. I will review the issue further.

[merlaux]

I found a reddit article that claims to solve this problem for Catalina. Specifically states that it fixes widevine issues as well. Let me know if it works for you. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/c68gh9/solution_for_all_apps_not_opening_in_catalina/

[ptewari]

I manually deleted to all Brave files in the Application Suuport folder in my ~/Library … I found 2 Application Support and ApplicationSupport (don’t know why there are 2 of these) and then disabled the spctl using the command sudo spctl --master-disable and then re-installed Brave. After opening Netflix, I got the DRM extension alert and then I went to the chrome://components and then updated the Widevine component. Now I can watch the video files. after this I enabled the security again sudo spctl --master-enable

Thanks!

[merlaux]

Excellent! No problem. Feel free to drop back in if you have further issues. Happy streaming!