Comment 50 for bug 1051559
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Bug 836243 changed the minimum required gstreamer version from 0.10.33 (2011-5-10) to 0.10.25 (2009-9-25). For Ubuntu, this means the minimum supported LTS release was changed from 12.04 to 10.04. The previous LTS, 8.04, is no longer supported on desktop and server support will be dropped in a couple months. Debian 6.0 (stable) is also now supported. Fedora 11 also now is supported (if I'm reading their site right).
Two questions:
1) How many people are on distros older than these and using the official build?
2) Does Mozilla actually want to support any distros older than these in the official build?
It looks like it might be practical to just set a minimum gstreamer version requirement of 0.10.25 for the official build and drop support for old no longer developer supported OSes. It's may not be worth it to maintain support for Linux users who haven't updated in over 3 years. A separate build with disabled gstreamer support could be put up somewhere for them if needed.
Of course, if runtime loading (comment 34) is easily doable then that would be great, but dropping support for particularly old distros and actually getting it turned on would be better than not doing anything. Windows is set to get h.264 support ahead of Linux, which is not feeling very Tier-1-y at the moment.