Is widevine not fully working on x86 installs ?

kspore · February 18, 2026 at 4:14 AM

Recently rebuilt my kodi box running on x86 hardware but been having persistent issues with widevine getting knokey errors.

Looking around online it sounds like sometime in the past year or two they cracked down on widevine CDM and now it doesn't work for x86 based installs?
I keep finding various posts that make it seem like it was fixed but then others that suggest it's broken I can't seem to find consistent information on this.

Is there somewhere where this is being discussed?
Are there workarounds?

Thanks

**chewitt** · February 18, 2026 at 6:41 AM

It's the first I hear of it, but unless there's a core packaging issue (our problem to fix) we normally deflect widevine discussion into the Kodi forums as that's where inputstream.adaptive and all the add-ons dependent on IA and widevine have support threads for their issues.