My opinion is that we shouldn't land these patches at this time. This is essentially for policy reasons:
Running codecs beyond the minimal set we support presents a larger surface to security review. Running codecs which other browsers don't support doesn't help web authors. Our goal is not to inspire web pages 'Best viewed in Firefox'. Quite the opposite. So adding the wide range of formats gstreamer offers doesn't advance the web as a platform. These are the main reasons we haven't added support for codecs like speex, flac, opus, jpeg2000, jpeg-xr, webp, etc. We have a wav reader in mozilla-central for debugging, but it's disabled by default. We have for some years been holding the line against for royalty-free codecs in HTML against very strong commercial and market pressure, because the patent terms available for otherwise popular formats like mp3 and mp4 are incompatible with our principles of user freedom. Requiring an alternative while flash adoption is falling is an important check against those commercial interests. Hooking into platform-level support for those codecs would greatly weaken that stance. I appreciate the work that's been done on these patches, but unlike doublec I don't think the code should be in the tree, even disabled by default. I think the bug should stay open in case we are forced to reverse our position on mp4, in which case we'll probably want this code in hurry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
