[Trisquel-devel] WebM in Trisquel 4.0

[roeplay at lavabit.com]

> Hello,
>
> I posted this a few days ago on the Trisquel Users forum, but thought it
> might be better suited here. I wonder if it might be feasible to get
> WebM support from the Firefox development branch into ABrowser? I'm
> aware that it's fairly close to release, but Trisquel 4.0 will be a LTS
> release and I think that being one of the first distros (perhaps the
> first) with out-of-the-box support for YouTube that doesn't depend on
> non-free software (e.g., Flash) would be a great thing to have on the
> side of free software.

It is possible (though not certain) that Mozilla will backport WebM to
Firefox 3.6. If you can create or find a patch for FF 3.6 that enables
WebM playback, we would all appreciate it.

An easier solution is to wait until a gstreamer plugin is released for
WebM playback, and for us to offer that newer version in Trisquel 4.0 as a
software update, so that both Totem and the browser (and Midori in
Trisquel Mini, for that matter) can all play WebM.

Thanks, and happy hacking.