Comment 22 for bug 1051559

(In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #14)
> Keep in mind that calling system gstreamer libraries means feeding data from
> the network into code we have no way to issue security fixes for.

We are already on track to doing that on Android, and the Android security update situation is worse than the security update situation on various desktop Linux distros. As in: It’s worse to the point of not having system updates—security or other—in most cases.

(In reply to sam tygier from comment #15)
> some related discussion in the distros,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682917
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843583

I think it would be unwise for distros to turn GStreamer on before bug 760140 is fixed.