Summary

Feature	Release	Dev Lead	QA Lead	Contributor	QA Status
openH264 plugin	Firefox 33	Georg Fritzsche	Alexandra Lucinet	Hossain Al Ikram	N/A

Intro

OpenH264, released by Cisco under the BSD license, is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding. It is suitable for use in real time applications such as WebRTC.

Details
- OS Support
  - Windows 64-bit and 32-bit
  - Mac OS X 64-bit and 32-bit
  - Linux 64-bit and 32-bit
  - Android 32-bit
  - iOS 64-bit and 32-bit
- Processor Support
  - Intel x86 optionally with MMX/SSE
  - ARMv7 optionally with NEON
  - Any architecture using C/C++ fallback functions

References

Testing details

Many thanks go out to Ikram for his great help in testing of openh264 plugin

How to generate logs:

Open about:config and click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button
Set:
- media.gmp-manager.log to true
- browser.dom.window.dump.enabled to true
Create:
- media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.logging.level (right click -> New -> String) set to 0
- media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.logging.dump (right click -> New -> Boolean) set to true

Notes:

Launch Firefox through the Command prompt/Terminal to view all the logs as it follows:
- For Windows Platform: use 'cd' command to get to the Firefox folder and enter 'firefox -no-remote -p -console' command
- For Mac OS X Platform: /Applications/Firefox/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p -console
  - Note: make sure the path to Firefox is the correct one
- For Linux Platform: use 'cd' command to get to the Firefox folder and './firefox -no-remote -p -console' command
Example of good logs

Launch Firefox (through the Terminal) and wait for the plugin to install via Add-ons Manager