Video stream for youtube videos doesn’t play on mobile devices

[Olivier Tilloy]

This seems to be a fairly recent regression, most likely due to a server-side change on m.youtube.com.

On mobile devices (reproducible both on a Nexus 7 running vivid-proposed and a krillin running 14.09-proposed), playing a youtube video plays back audio only, not video.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

A minor change in the UA string override we send for m.youtube.com does the trick: the "Chromium" token needs to be changed to "Chrome". I.e. the new override rule becomes:

    [/^https?:\/\/m\.youtube\.com\//, "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4;) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/35.0.1870.2 Mobile Safari/537.36"]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+15.04.20150127~rtm-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+15.04.20150127~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=low

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Update the m.youtube.com UA override to fix video playback. (LP:
    #1415107)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:33:52 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+15.04.20150127-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.23+15.04.20150127-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Update the m.youtube.com UA override to fix video playback. (LP:
    #1415107)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:33:47 +0000