Closed Bug 1137860 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Create a bare-bones SWF-based video player to polyfill VP6 fallback using the Flash plugin

Categories

(Firefox Graveyard :: Shumway, defect)

Product:
Firefox Graveyard
Component:
Shumway
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: till, Assigned: yury)

References

Details

VP6 is used in quite a few ads, and we can't tell beforehand whether it is or not. To not completely break these ads, we should build a video player that we can embed instead of a <video> element and that we communicate with via ExternalInterface. This SWF would do absolutely nothing except for playing a video stream we pass in, so it wouldn't create a huge added attack surface.
Summary: Create a bare-bones SWF-based video player to use as a VP6 fallback → Create a bare-bones SWF-based video player to polyfill VP6 fallback using the Flash plugin
Yury is working on the VP6 polyfill.
Assignee: nobody → ydelendik
Depends on: 1169455
Depends on: 1170729
Blocks: 1148802
This bug doesn't need to block M4 because we can (try to) avoid whitelisting ad domains that serve videos.
Blocks: shumway-m5
No longer blocks: shumway-m4
Product: Firefox → Firefox Graveyard
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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