(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #27) > This decision also motivated by the fact that we know our built in decoders > work reliably, and we know that the GStreamer backend has some problems; it > fails our unit tests, so we know there are bugs either in GStreamer or in > our use of it.
Some of the test failures with GStreamer were due to the test file having the wrong duration listed in its manifest, I fixed that in bug 803427. > > > I'm going to change our decoder creation code in bug 799344 to not use > > > GStreamer for Ogg and WebM. > > > > One of the reasons I am interested in this bug is due to what seems to be > > much better video acceleration code in gStreamer vs Firefox. At least could > > it be be made an about:config option, pass all to gstreamer? > > Sure, I will do this, it's a good idea. I'm doing this in bug 803287. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051559 Title: Build Firefox with GStreamer support Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Building Firefox with GStreamer support would provide support for a lot of websites that use h264. To build Firefox with GStreamer support you should use the "--enable-gstreamer" option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1051559/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
