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Agent_24
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December 16, 2016
Question

Flash update 24.0.0.186 seems to have broken DRM on Linux

  • December 16, 2016
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Currently running 24.0.0.189 on Lubuntu 14.04 32-bit

Protected videos have stopped loading since yesterday, right after I did a system update, and which no doubt pulled in the latest Flash 24.0.0.186 version released earlier this week. It seems the upgrade to this version has broken something.

I have tried upgrading to 24.0.0.189 beta but it makes no difference.

Also followed the troubleshooting (delete cache\reinstall etc) at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/protected-video-content-play.html but it was no help.

The DRM test page stops with the dialogue "Loading Flash Access License" and a loading animation which spins forever.

Interestingly, the "DRM events" lists:

authenticationMethod = null

ServerURL = null

license ID = null

Not really sure what has happened here.

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    _maria_
    _maria_
    Legend
    December 16, 2016

    Hi,

    DRM support on Linux is currently not supported on the latest version of Flash Player.  Please see Beta News – Flash Player NPAPI for Linux  and 10/13/2016 - Beta - Flash Player 23.0.0.195 for more information.

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    Maria

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    Muzer0
    Participant
    February 7, 2017

    Can you confirm that this is a regression (since the security-patched version 11 did support DRM), and could I ask if there are there any plans to add support? It is currently impossible to watch All4 on Linux (except Android), from what I can tell, without very clunky solutions like using a Windows web browser in wine. I suspect this also applies to other Flash-based TV players. Could you also fix both links that you provided so that they no longer recommend using the PPAPI version, which has (to my knowledge) never supported DRM? (If the PPAPI Linux version DOES support DRM, I apologise, but I haven't found anyone on the internet who has been able to actually get it to work, so some help there would be much appreciated).

    I definitely welcome the return of support for Flash on Linux, but am disappointed that this vital feature is not present.

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