Many streaming services are now implementing Digital Right Management (DRM) security to their streams.
On many platforms, we support decoding of these streams using the Inputstream.Adaptive support available as an optional extra with Kodi v18. This means that you must be running at least Kodi v18 for this to work.
We have built a DRM Helper add-on which manages the installation of the specific libraries required for decoding Widevine encrypted streams through Inputstream.Adaptive.
For this to work, we rely on the Widevine DRM library shipped with the Google Chrome browser, and a layer that translates between it and Inputstream.Adaptive. This means we can generally support any platform that Google Chrome is built for.
The platforms that we can support are:
Some specific platforms that we can’t support (for various reasons):
For Windows, Kodi can be be installed either directly, or from the Windows Store. When installed from the Windows Store, Kodi is subject to tighter security, which prevents us from being able to load the extra Widevine DRM library. Therefore, we recommend only installing Kodi by downloading it from Kodi directly and running the installer yourself.
Kodi on the Xbox One is subject to the same security restrictions as Kodi installed on Windows from the Windows Store, where we are unable to load the Widevine DRM library. There is no away around this limitation, so we are unable to provide any Widevine DRM support to the Xbox One.
Android can be supported by native Widevine support that is included within the Android operating system itself, but does require an official device that includes the Widevine support from Google. This generally includes handsets TV boxes TVs from brand-name manufacturers.
This generally means that many cheap Android devices from China won’t include this support, or support is broken. In some cases, using a third party firmware can break DRM decoding support.
Devices that we have had great success with, and recommend are:
The DRM Helper add-on is installed automatically when installing any of our add-ons that require it.
Once you attempt to load up a stream that requires DRM support, you will be prompted to download the required binaries to make this work.