Re-engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing “Chrobalt” to RDK
- Santosh Mahto September 11, 2026 tl,dr: How Collabora partnered with the YouTube Cobalt and Device Partner Engineering teams to deliver the first RDK-based reference platform for their next-generation living room web engine.
- Switch on your Smart TV, open YouTube, and navigate to Settings → App Version, you might spot a version text like 25.lts.
- That’s the version of classic Cobalt, the lightweight, open source HTML5/CSS/JavaScript engine meant specifically for resource-constrained embedded devices, which currently runs YouTube on living room devices such as SmartTVs, STBs, etc.
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- Santosh Mahto September 11, 2026 tl,dr: How Collabora partnered with the YouTube Cobalt and Device Partner Engineering teams to deliver the first RDK-based reference platform for their next-generation living room web engine.
- Switch on your Smart TV, open YouTube, and navigate to Settings → App Version, you might spot a version text like 25.lts.
- That’s the version of classic Cobalt, the lightweight, open source HTML5/CSS/JavaScript engine meant specifically for resource-constrained embedded devices, which currently runs YouTube on living room devices such as SmartTVs, STBs, etc.
Sources: Collabora