Debug preference for testing H.264/MPEG-4 AVC in Firefox for Android
12 Sep 2012Nightly for Android has recently adapted a new about:config preference for using and more-so testing Android H.264/MPEG-4 AVC decoding. The preference is media.stagefright.omxcodec.flags
Utimately, this preference allows one to override whether Firefox uses Android’s H.264/MPEG-4 AVC software or hardware decoder. As Chris Peterson mentions in the same announcement, this is useful for debugging different configurations and conveinent for testing.
Flags values to note:
- 0 - Android will use either hardware or software decoding (default)
- 8 - Force software decoding
- 16 - Force hardware decoding
Reference: OMXCodec::CreationFlags