Can we have details here?

Why specifically does Youtube need special treatment?  Why can't they implement server side redirection from /v/ to /embed/?  Will other video services be offered the same?

Implementation is here:
https://codereview.chromium.org/2154233003/

An email was sent to chromium-dev@ with more information.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930

commit e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930
Author: kdsilva <kdsilva@google.com>
Date: Tue Aug 09 17:08:11 2016

Rewrite YouTube Flash embeds.

When a Flash embed for YouTube is detected, we automatically use HTML5 instead. This is done to reduce the overall usage of Flash in Chrome.

BUG= 625984 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2154233003
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#410715}

[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/common/chrome_features.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/common/chrome_features.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/renderer/DEPS
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client_browsertest.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/renderer/chrome_content_renderer_client_unittest.cc
[add] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/chrome/test/data/flash_embeds.html
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/content/public/renderer/content_renderer_client.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/content/public/renderer/content_renderer_client.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/content/renderer/render_frame_impl.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/content/renderer/render_frame_impl.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/html/HTMLEmbedElement.cpp
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/loader/FrameLoaderClient.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/third_party/WebKit/Source/web/FrameLoaderClientImpl.cpp
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/third_party/WebKit/Source/web/FrameLoaderClientImpl.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/e0135598f6bf547463bc943100da4574c5f89930/third_party/WebKit/public/web/WebFrameClient.h

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/c91b13c8b1e3eb18efc1e9de4ec67fbb2e678e91

commit c91b13c8b1e3eb18efc1e9de4ec67fbb2e678e91
Author: mlamouri <mlamouri@chromium.org>
Date: Tue Aug 09 20:24:31 2016

Record HTMLPluginElement::requestObject result.

BUG= 625984 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2218883002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#410794}

[modify] https://crrev.com/c91b13c8b1e3eb18efc1e9de4ec67fbb2e678e91/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/html/HTMLPlugInElement.cpp
[modify] https://crrev.com/c91b13c8b1e3eb18efc1e9de4ec67fbb2e678e91/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/html/HTMLPlugInElement.h
[modify] https://crrev.com/c91b13c8b1e3eb18efc1e9de4ec67fbb2e678e91/tools/metrics/histograms/histograms.xml