Platform/Planning/Video2010Q4

Candidate work items:

• Reduce orange, reduce assertion failures in mochitests.
  • VideoData leak (patch in hand)
  • test_seek, test_seek_out_of_range, test_playback, test_play_events, test_buffered
  • Upgrade PulseAudio to eliminate that source of errors
  • Use record and replay
  • P1
• Implement playbackRate bug 495040
  • Post-FF4
• Implement 'seekable'
  • Post-FF4
• HTMLMediaElement startTime attribute bug 498253
  • Post-FF4
• libsydneyaudio replacement and audio refactoring
  • P2
• Rewrite nsWaveDecoder to use nsBuiltinDecoder.
  • Post-FF4
• Thread pool nsBuiltinDecoderStateMachine. bug 592833
  • P2
• Refactoring to allow multiple decoders per element. Required by:
  • Seamless looping bug 449157
  • Chained Ogg support bug 455165
  • Adaptive bandwidth
  • Post-FF4
• Subtitle support...
  • Post-FF4
• Setup environment to measure performance and compare vs Flash.
  • P1
• Perf work for Fennec? (Tremor bug 511348? VP8-ARM?)
  • P2
• Adaptive bandwidth / RTP (Tim & Blizzard?)
  • Post-FF4
• Review/Land GStreamer patch (Should this be refactored on top of nsBuiltinDecoder before landing?)
  • Not our priority; we'll review whatever someone comes up with, IF someone steps up to commit to addressing review comments; they can demonstrate commitment by addressing the currently outstanding review comments
• Pushing video directly from decoder thread to compositing process (can develop on Fennec)
  • Need to start on this ASAP (P1)
• Fullscreen API, backport to FF4 perhaps.
  • Not really a video API; will be done when it's done, we can consider backporting