On 7/27/10, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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what about iceweasel or icefox instead
the trademark problem makes it non free