VP9 Video Decoder

Summary

VP9 is an open and royalty free video compression standard that succeeds the VP8 format also developed by Google. The implementation of VP9 decoding support in Firefox will ensure the playback of VP9-encoded videos, natively.

References

• Official VP9 WebM Page
• VP9 Wikipedia Page
• VP9-encoded Video Sample Page

Test Cases

• The manual test cases associated to this feature can be found in this Moztrap testsuite.
• Automated testing is being tracked in Bug 949525.

Bugs

• Tracking Bug - 833023

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Criteria

• All the test cases were executed.
• All the blocker, critical, major bugs have been fixed.

Merge to Aurora Sign-off

The feature was signed-off on 12/13/2013, following a thorough verification performed under the following platforms:

• Windows 7 64-bit,
• Windows 8.1 64-bit,
• Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit,
• Mac OS X 10.9.

Pre-beta Sign-off

Concerns

• Bug 962560 - Audio volume UI resets to full volume after toggling the screen size of a video - NEW

Status

The feature was signed-off on 01/23/2014, following a thorough verification performed under the following platforms:

• Windows 7 64-bit,
• Windows 8.1 64-bit,
• Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit,
• Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit,
• Mac OS X 10.9.

Merge to Release Sign-off

The feature was signed-off on 02/06/2014, following an additional execution of the available test cases associated to this feature.