--- a/mobile/android/app/mobile.js
+++ b/mobile/android/app/mobile.js
@@ -614,17 +614,21 @@ pref("media.cache_readahead_limit", 30);
 // chronically starved of video frames. All decoders seen so far have a value
 // of at least 4.
 pref("media.video-queue.default-size", 3);
 
 // Enable the MediaCodec PlatformDecoderModule by default.
 pref("media.android-media-codec.enabled", true);
 pref("media.android-media-codec.preferred", true);
 // Run decoder in seperate process.
+#ifdef NIGHTLY_BUILD
+pref("media.android-remote-codec.enabled", true);
+#else
 pref("media.android-remote-codec.enabled", false);
+#endif
 
 // Enable MSE
 pref("media.mediasource.enabled", true);
 
 // optimize images memory usage
 pref("image.downscale-during-decode.enabled", true);
 
 pref("browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled", false);