886876 - YouTube preinstalled in leo partner customization is incorrectly using Gaia Video app to render videos

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

The leo partner customization currently contains a YouTube app in the 6/14 build. However, the YouTube app preinstalled right now makes use of the Gaia video app to render videos. YouTube has already stated that they do not want videos rendered in the Gaia video app via their hosted preinstalled app. Therefore, we need this app removed from the build.

Comment 1

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Karen, can you confirm Leo should remove Youtube app from their build?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich) from comment #1)
> Karen, can you confirm Leo should remove Youtube app from their build?

Vishy is the point of contact for YouTube, so I'm moving needinfo over to him.

Point of clarification - YouTube is a preinstalled app, except the preinstalled app that has to be used here is using the Gaia video app to render videos. We would need to preinstall the YouTube app that uses the HTML 5 video in-content playback, not the one that uses the Gaia video app to play videos.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Vishy & I just talked about this. The target app preinstalled on the device with the app manifest is correct so long as this app passes certification and we remove the UA override for YouTube. When this happens, we'll get the content YouTube expects. Therefore, for now, we don't need to remove the app from the build under the assumption that we will have YouTube for 1.1. If we so happen to pull YouTube from the build for failing certification, then I'll file a new bug for this.

Comment 4

[vkrishnamoorthy]

just a minor clarification, YT will change the url server side to point to http://m.youtube.com/?player=html5&monetize=1 which will dish out html5 content and ads