Manual Widevine installation - Sandmann79/xbmc GitHub Wiki

These instructions are not necessary and are documented purely for completeness.

• download and install Google Chrome portable of the same architechture as Kodi (x86/x64)
• copy widevine.dll from <Chrome path>\App\Chrome-bin\<version>\WidevineCdm\_platform_specific\win_<x86|_x64> to %AppData%\Kodi\cdm (create the folder, if it doesn't exist)

• download Google Chrome
• open google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb with some archive manager
• extract ./opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so to ~/.kodi/cdm (create the folder, if it doesn't exist)

Please use the guides provided by Milhouse at kodi.tv:

• LibreELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 18.0)
• LibreELEC Testbuilds for x86_64 (Kodi 18.0)

Please use the guides provided by gcm at osmc.tv:

• OSMC Testbuilds Kodi 18 (Leia) for Raspberry Pi
• OSMC Testbuilds Kodi 18 (Leia) for Vero 2 & 4K

Needs no Widevine library, it's already included in the firmware.