OpenH264 plugin/Test Plan

Summary

Feature	Release	Dev Lead	QA Lead	Contributor	QA Status
openH264 plugin	Firefox 33	Georg Fritzsche	Alexandra Lucinet	Hossain Al Ikram	N/A

Intro

OpenH264, released by Cisco under the BSD license, is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding. It is suitable for use in real time applications such as WebRTC.

• Details
  • OS Support
    • Windows 64-bit and 32-bit
    • Mac OS X 64-bit and 32-bit
    • Linux 64-bit and 32-bit
    • Android 32-bit
    • iOS 64-bit and 32-bit
  • Processor Support
    • Intel x86 optionally with MMX/SSE
    • ARMv7 optionally with NEON
    • Any architecture using C/C++ fallback functions

References

• openH264 homepage
• Source code
• Wiki page
• Mozilla blog post
• Cisco blog post

Testing details

• Many thanks go out to Ikram for his great help in testing of openh264 plugin

How to generate logs:

• Open about:config and click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button
• Set:
  • media.gmp-manager.log to true
  • browser.dom.window.dump.enabled to true
• Create:
  • media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.logging.level (right click -> New -> String) set to 0
  • media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.logging.dump (right click -> New -> Boolean) set to true

Notes:

• Launch Firefox through the Command prompt/Terminal to view all the logs as it follows:
  • For Windows Platform: use 'cd' command to get to the Firefox folder and enter 'firefox -no-remote -p -console' command
  • For Mac OS X Platform: /Applications/Firefox/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p -console
    • Note: make sure the path to Firefox is the correct one
  • For Linux Platform: use 'cd' command to get to the Firefox folder and './firefox -no-remote -p -console' command
• Example of good logs

Launch Firefox (through the Terminal) and wait for the plugin to install via Add-ons Manager

Default state

State after installation

Prefs generated after successful plugin installation

Example of a successful h264 call

• Test page:
  • http://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/pc_test_h264.html

Tracking Bugs

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Moztrap Tests

• OpenH264 plugin Tests

Sign-off

Criteria

• All the Moztrap test cases were executed.
• All the blocker, critical, major bugs have been fixed.

Firefox 33 pre-Beta Sign Off - 08/29/2014

• All the test cases were executed on the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64-bit
  • Mac OS X 10.9.4
  • Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit
• Test Run Results: Link