Re-engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing “Chrobalt” to RDK

Collabora partnered with Google's YouTube Cobalt and Device Partner Engineering teams to build the first RDK-based reference platform for Chrobalt, the successor to classic Cobalt that merges Cobalt's Starboard porting layer with Chromium's rendering pipeline. Classic Cobalt was a lightweight HTML5/CSS/JS engine built for resource-constrained Smart TVs and set-top boxes, but maintaining an independent rendering engine became unsustainable alongside the fast-moving web platform, prompting Google to merge Cobalt into Chromium. The new Chrobalt engine (starting with 26.eap, now at 27.lts/138+) was ported and stabilized on Amlogic chipsets over more than a year, establishing a reference design for device partners like Samsung and LG. The platform was showcased at BlinkOn-21 and the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Japan as a production-ready path for next-generation living room YouTube deployments.

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