Youtube movie browser unsupported, DRM support broken


Description of the issue:
Brave Linux’s support for Youtube DRM is broken is latest release

Youtube free movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGFONxNpVQ playback fails with "Your browser can’t play this video. "
https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGFONxNpVQ in brave linux

Expected result:
no issue playing back videos with youtube DRM

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Version 1.29.77 Chromium: 93.0.4577.63 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
Ubuntu 20, same video doesn’t have issue with Chrome Chromium 93.0.4577.63 (Official Build) snap (64-bit) which has the same exact same user agent “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36”

turned out I didn’t have Widevine enabled in settings

After enabling it in settings and restarting Brave, now it is all working

brave://components/

Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.2209.0
Status - Up-to-date

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