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