> However, Mozilla can't ship it enabled Just a minor nitpick: Under Linux, people don't download from Mozilla but have it installed by default. If not, they i

> However, Mozilla can't ship it enabled Just a minor nitpick: Under Linux, people don't download from Mozilla but have it installed by default. If not, they install via package manager and not via download from Mozilla. So it's not Mozilla making that decision, but the respective Linux distros. But of course they have the same problem. I believe a good compromise would be to check if ffmpeg is installed on the system, and use it only when available. So the user would have to install ffmpeg directly. That would be a very different situation from including code from ffmpeg directly into some app.