Hi Jason, Thanks for the feedback. My answers/comments below.
On 10/18/2012 11:02 PM, Jason Smith wrote:
* Land media platform decoding functionality for Android's Gingerbread and
Honeycomb OSs in mozilla-central. One target device for each OS will be
identified and agreed upon by Media and Android to verify functionality.
Success criteria: platform decoders running in Firefox will playback videos at
a similar performance metric to the videos playing back in the default browser
on the same device.
Like the idea, but something I'm thinking about extending off of this - what
about the web compatibility side of this? We know that certain sites right now
even with h264 support tested through b2g and ice cream sandwich with Android
sometimes are still not serving us the right content - which could be 1) an
evangelism problem 2) some internal issue that we can control (such as the
issue we discovered recently with videos served in h264 format from brightcove).
Yeah, there are many components to getting video playback "working" on
Firefox Android from a user perspective. Some we control, some don't.
This quarterly goal captures one important piece that we control.
It's going to be important to identify all problems, fix the ones we can
as soon as we can, and escalate/make known ones we don't control but can
champion (like the evangelism bugs). The ultimate goal is for
developers and users to see our product as "working" for them.
* Demo H.264/MP4 support using Windows Media Foundation on Windows 7 or
Windows 8 Metro
When you mean demo, do you mean "proof of concept" level to prove that it
works? Just wondering what FF version desktop support for h264 intends to be supported
for, so that way, QA knows when to be ready to help out.
I promise I'll give you plenty of warning. :-) The goal here is to get
a prototype up and working ideally on Windows 8 Metro, but if that can't
happen, getting the prototype/demo working on Windows 7 is still very
solid progress and would still be considered a success. Once we have a
prototype up and working, we would use that as a springboard to talk
about adding that functionality to the product.
Curious, why not include shipping gUM in this list in Firefox 19?
It's tough to know what to make a quarterly goal. I and others just
felt this was an important goal we're working toward, but that it didn't
quite rise to the level of quarterly goal. Plus, I personally felt
the team was going to have enough pressure getting WebRTC pref'd on in
Firefox 20 (especially after coming off landing the code in
mozilla-central in time for Firefox 18).
It's still very much an internal goal to pref gUM on in Firefox 19 and
one that we will work hard to make -- preferably without going insane or
getting sick from overwork. :-)
-Maire
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Maire Reavy <[email protected]>
Mozilla
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