[Bug 412647] Re: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags

[sam tygier]

"5. Given the Ubuntu commitment to free software, do we really want to
enable support for other codecs other than the officially supported free
ones?"

building with gstreamer does not in itself allow firefox to play h264.
it means that firefox can use the gstreamer codecs that you can install.
this work equivient to rhythmbox, banshee, totem etc, where codec
support is expandable by installing new gstreamer codecs.

If there is a desire to prevent firefox supporting non-free formats then
its plugin support would need to be disabled so that it can't use flash
or realplayer.

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