Platform/Planning/Video2010Q4

Candidate work items:

• Reduce orange, reduce assertion failures in mochitests.
• Implement playbackRate bug 495040
• Implement 'seekable'
• libsydneyaudio replacement and audio refactoring
• Rewrite nsWaveDecoder to use nsBuiltinDecoder.
• Thread pool nsBuiltinDecoderStateMachine. bug 592833
• Refactoring to allow multiple decoders per element. Required by:
  • Seamless looping bug 449157
  • Chained Ogg support bug 455165
  • Adaptive bandwidth
• Subtitle support...
• Performance work:
  • Setup environment to compare performance vs Flash.
  • 'Video should decode into buffers allocated by layer backend we are targeting.' bug 553278
  • Perf work for Fennec? (Tremor bug 511348?)
  • Other perf work?
• HTMLMediaElement startTime attribute bug 498253
• Adaptive bandwidth / RTP (Tim & Blizzard?)
• Review/Land GStreamer patch (Should this be refactored on top of nsBuiltinDecoder before landing?)
• Pushing video directly from decoder thread to compositing process (can develop on Fennec)
• Fullscreen API, backport to FF4 perhaps.
• What else?