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Christopher Blizzard  
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 More options Mar 12 2012, 4:20 pm
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From: Christopher Blizzard <blizz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:20:56 -0700
Local: Mon, Mar 12 2012 4:20 pm
Subject: Re: hardware-accelerated audio/video decoding in Gecko (bug 714408)
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On 3/12/2012 7:32 AM, Joe Drew wrote:

> On 2012-03-12 3:28 AM, Andreas Gal wrote:
>> There is really no justification to stop our users from using system
>> decoders already on the device, so we will not filter any formats.

> Further to my earlier message: there is exactly as much justification
> stopping our users from using system decoders on mobile as there is on
> desktop. If we want to support non-free formats via system codecs, we
> should make that our official plan for Firefox on all platforms. Doing
> so via the back door, which is what I perceive this as, is wrong.

I agree we should make that the plan.  But we should start with Mobile
where the codecs are more widely available and move from there.  We're
somewhat resource constrained here.

--Chris


 
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