Nightly 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