Ideas

We welcome others to contribute or help out with any of the below ideas. If you have more ideas, feel free to add them here, or discuss them in a GitHub issue.

Visual improvements

• Improve the communication in the dialogs for non-technical users
• Use a single progress bar for downloading and extraction
• Add an InputStream Helper icon #398

Settings

• An Info settings category with information on the currently installed Widevine/ChromeOS
• Configure the frequency of Widevine checking for new releases #173
• Maybe a way to influence the HWID to be used (auto, or manually configured) (ARM)
• Configure the temporary location for download and extraction (ARM) #21
• Number of backups to keep #36 #165 #193
• A non-interactive option, when set, Inputstream Helper will just upgrade without asking questions #202
• An option to pin to a specific version (just disable InputStream Helper?)
• An option that would only upgrade when Widevine fails (revoked or incompatible) #69

Features

• Improve performance #89
• Restructure code #94
• Better unicode handling (remove kodi-six) #102 #169
• Backup and recover older Widevine CDM releases #165 #193
• End-user docs in Wiki on how to troubleshoot and fix Widevine issues
• An API for developers to integrate with #91
• Add-on developer docs in Wiki on how add-ons should refer to our settings-page
• Better/faster CDM extraction on ARM #72 #348
• Support vendor-distributed Widevine #229
• Revert to any online Widevine CDM version available
• Implement ffmpegdirect support #270
• Implement Microsoft PlayReady support #389