(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #27)
> This decision also motivated by the fact that we know our built in decoders
> work reliably, and we know that the GStreamer backend has some problems; it
> fails our unit tests, so we know there are bugs either in GStreamer or in
> our use of it.

Some of the test failures with GStreamer were due to the test file
having the wrong duration listed in its manifest, I fixed that in bug
803427.


> > > I'm going to change our decoder creation code in bug 799344 to not use
> > > GStreamer for Ogg and WebM.
> > 
> > One of the reasons I am interested in this bug is due to what seems to be
> > much better video acceleration code in gStreamer vs Firefox.  At least could
> > it be be made an about:config option, pass all to gstreamer?
> 
> Sure, I will do this, it's a good idea.

I'm doing this in bug 803287.

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