On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:07:09AM -0800, Jed Davis wrote:
> Short version: On desktop Linux systems too old to support seccomp-bpf
> system call filtering[1], Gecko Media Plugins will be disabled; in
> practice, this means OpenH264, which is used for H.264 video compression
> in WebRTC.  This will be controlled with a pref, "media.gmp.insecure.allow".

(snip)

So, in practice, because the h264 code is not sandboxed on some setups,
we're disabling it so that vp8, which is not sandboxed either, is used
instead. We have about the same amount of control over openh264 and
vp8 code bases. What makes the difference?

Mike
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