Support for bundling Widevine into the installation package about electron-releases HOT 2 CLOSED

Yes, that is correct. For licensing and updatability reasons we are not bundling the CDM with electron, so it is installed and updated by the app itself. It is however installed on a per-user basis in %APPDATA%\APPNAME\ (typically something like C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\APPNAME), the same place where electron stores preferences/caches/etc, so as long as the user has access to this folder it should not be a problem. I don't know enough about your deployment to gauge this specific case though.

Since bundling and pre-installation has not been a design goal, it is not possible to completely achieve in the current implementation if the target download/install directories are write protected for the user (it will, sort of, work but with some errors displayed on launch). This can probably be remedied with some fairly minor changes though, so it might be something to consider for us.

I suppose you would prefer a globally installed CDM, e.g. together with the application package, in this case? There is one major caveat with an approach like this though, that you should be aware of. Since we would not be able to update the installed CDM, any mandatory CDM updates issued would obviously not be automatically installed. Once the older, potentially vulnerable, CDM is revoked the installations would no longer function until an admin does a manual update of the CDM to a more recent version.

Please consider my above statements and come back to me with your input!

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