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  1. Bug #1051559
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 1051559

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In , Cpearce-t (cpearce-t) wrote :

(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #31)
> > > 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.

Just landed this change. I also renamed the pref to enable gstreamer, and nsHTMLMediaElement's gstreamer related functions, from .*H264.* to .*GStreamer.*, since we'll have other backends which also provide H.264 playback on other platforms.