(In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > My opinion is that we shouldn't land these patches at this time.
I think your main points are: 1) Holding the line against for royalty-free codecs 2) Security issues I'm not sure, whether using gstreamer would HAVE to result in mp4 support. You could probably limit gstreamer to specific container/codec combinations on purpose. Also, including another library always includes security risks. However, I'm not convinced that FireFox does the best it can to playback videos. Especially on older systems, I expected HTML5 to be faster than Flash. Turns out, HTML5 on youtube is worse than Flash - at least in FireFox. Firefox uses slightly more CPU and the X server process consumes more than twice as much CPU as when using Flash. Using a native player consumes less than half the CPU time flash needs and of course much less than half the HTML5 player on youtube. As far as I understand, it was also raised in this thread that using gstreamer can have advantages in those areas as well (vaapi, vdpau, opengl?). I leave it up to you, whether improvements in these areas are to be achieved with or without gstreamer. -- 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
