QA/H264-AAC-MP3 support

Feature	Status	Release Target	Lead engineer	QA Lead	QA Status
QA/H.264-AAC-MP3 support for Windows 7/8			Chris Double	Cornel Ionce	In progress

Summary

This feature adds support for playing H.264/AAC in MP4 and support for playing MP3 audio files in HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements will now been switched on by default for Windows 7 and later.

Reference

• Tracking bug: 799318 - [meta] Support H.264/AAC/MP3 video/audio playback on desktop Firefox
• Chris Pears's blog post: H.264/AAC/MP3 support now enabled by default in Firefox Nightlies on Windows 7 and later

Important Bugs

• 799315 - Windows Media Foundation backend for media playback
• 832754 - Enable support for H.264/AAC/MP3 video/audio playback in Metro Firefox

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Criteria

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