Intro

As the Web’s functionality elevated, the use of audio and video has increased exponentially. On this feature page you will find the most common Firefox's changes made through time.

Feature Ownership

QA Lead: Alexandra Lucinet, :adalucinet on IRC

Documentation

• Mozilla Support Pages:
  • How to fix common audio and video issues
  • Use plugins to play audio, video, games and more
  • Use the QuickTime plugin to play audio and video
  • How to fix problems with RealPlayer add-ons
• Using HTML5 audio and video
  • Media formats supported by the HTML audio and video elements
• Mozillazine post regarding issues related to Audio/Video

Testing Approach

Since this is a wide area, any testing engagement will do - please see the below examples

• Test how Firefox handles various audio and video formats, like .mp3, .ogg, .wmv, etc.
• Test the brand new OpenH264 plugin:
  • Test page: http://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/pc_test.html
• Play around with Web Audio API:
  • Demo page: http://webaudioplayground.appspot.com/

Related features

• Plugins
• OpenH264 plugin
• WebRTC
• Gstreamer 1.0
• VP9 Video Decoder
• Web Audio

Bug Work

Bugzilla queries