[Bug 1051559]

[Davemgarrett]

Bug 836243 changed the minimum required gstreamer version from 0.10.33
(2011-5-10) to 0.10.25 (2009-9-25). For Ubuntu, this means the minimum
supported LTS release was changed from 12.04 to 10.04. The previous LTS,
8.04, is no longer supported on desktop and server support will be
dropped in a couple months. Debian 6.0 (stable) is also now supported.
Fedora 11 also now is supported (if I'm reading their site right).

Two questions:
1) How many people are on distros older than these and using the official build?
2) Does Mozilla actually want to support any distros older than these in the official build?

It looks like it might be practical to just set a minimum gstreamer
version requirement of 0.10.25 for the official build and drop support
for old no longer developer supported OSes. It's may not be worth it to
maintain support for Linux users who haven't updated in over 3 years. A
separate build with disabled gstreamer support could be put up somewhere
for them if needed.

Of course, if runtime loading (comment 34) is easily doable then that
would be great, but dropping support for particularly old distros and
actually getting it turned on would be better than not doing anything.
Windows is set to get h.264 support ahead of Linux, which is not feeling
very Tier-1-y at the moment.

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