On 7/27/10, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > what about iceweasel or icefox instead the trademark problem makes it non free -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
