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Kaz Sasayama

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Aug 13, 2009, 1:56:47 AM8/13/09
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Is this the right group to ask a question about HTML 5 audio/video tag
implementation in Gecko?

I would like to know whether there is any plan to support pluggable
codecs for those tags or not.

Robert O'Callahan

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Aug 13, 2009, 5:30:56 AM8/13/09
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On 13/8/09 5:56 PM, Kaz Sasayama wrote:
> Is this the right group to ask a question about HTML 5 audio/video tag
> implementation in Gecko?

mozilla.dev.platform would probably be a better group.

> I would like to know whether there is any plan to support pluggable
> codecs for those tags or not.

There isn't. You can of course make a custom Firefox build with a codec
added in. If your codec is generally useful and has a suitable open
source license you could submit it for inclusion. Can you describe what
you would like to do?

Rob

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Kaz Sasayama

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Aug 14, 2009, 12:19:08 PM8/14/09
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On 8月13日, 午後6:30, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote:

> On 13/8/09 5:56 PM, Kaz Sasayama wrote:

> > Is this the right group to ask a question about HTML 5 audio/video tag
> > implementation in Gecko?

> mozilla.dev.platform would probably be a better group.

Thank you for a suggestion. I added followup-to:
mozilla.dev.platform.

> > I would like to know whether there is any plan to support pluggable
> > codecs for those tags or not.

> There isn't. You can of course make a custom Firefox build with a codec
> added in. If your codec is generally useful and has a suitable open
> source license you could submit it for inclusion. Can you describe what
> you would like to do?

I just wondered if I can use MP3 audio or MP4 H.264 video with the new
tags in Firefox. AFAIK, those formats require license fees to
distribute decoders, so I have thought it is better to leave them out
of Firefox and make those decoders pluggable by users.

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