VP9VideoDecoder/Test Plan

VP9 Video Decoder

Feature	Target Milestone	Status	Lead engineer	QA Lead	QA Status
VP9 Video Decoder	Firefox 28	In Progress	Jan Gerber	Andrei Vaida	In progress

Summary

VP9 is an open and royalty free video compression standard, a successor of VP8 previously known as "NGOV" - Next Gen Open Video - and developed by Google. The implementation of VP9 decoding support in Firefox will allow our users to playback 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

Sign off

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

Signed-off on tbd.