On 07/28/2010 04:06 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > According to this two year-old post, it's possible to build Firefox > with gstreamer support: > > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/04/firefox-html5-video-with-gstreamer.html > > > Dunno if any of that is true today. > > There's precedent for Firefox using system components instead of > bundled ones. Firefox already uses hunspell instead of its own bundled > dictionary, for spell checking. It makes sense for Firefox to use > gstreamer, instead of any bundled codecs.
The blog post talks about a non upstreamed patch and Firefox doesn't use Gstreamer at all now. It isn't just a matter of a bundled vs system components at this point. Non upstreamed patches are not a option for Firefox for trademark reasons as well. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
