New WebM Products and Projects
Friday, July 2, 2010 | 4:01 PM
Some cool uses of WebM have come online recently:
- a native VP8 decoder in FFmpeg
- a VP8 decoder in Java
- WebM encoding in the Firefogg add-on for Firefox
- WebM playback in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
5 comments:
antistress said...
Something is unclear to me : is it about native decoding in FFMPEG only or also native encoding ?
July 2, 2010 9:02 PM
Nintendo Maniac 64 said...
This is the second time you guys have forgetten Opera... Opera 10.6 final just released with WebM support.
July 2, 2010 11:54 PM
boo said...
You should have said WebM is available in MPC-HC beta builds as the current stable build on sourceforge is several months old.
@Nintendo Maniac 64: Opera 10.6 has buggy WebM support, it doesn't save the volume level of WebM videos on youtube, the maximise button on youtube doesn't truly maximise it into fullscreen and there is no 480p option on youtube, only 360/720p so google is right in not promoting Opera as it's support for youtube is buggy.
July 3, 2010 5:01 AM
Nintendo Maniac 64 said...
@boo But most of those have nothing to do with WebM and everything to do with Opera's general HTML5 video implementation - it would happen regardless of codec.
Except for no 480p - that's a YouTube problem. For whatever reason, YouTube only makes 480p in FLV, which is unplayable via HTML5. Even h.264 HTML5 browsers like Safari have this issue.
July 3, 2010 3:36 PM
unxed said...
> Something is unclear to me : is it about native decoding in FFMPEG only or also native encoding?
Only native decoding. But with higher performance that libvpx.
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=499
> WebM is available in MPC-HC beta builds
You can try MPC HC nightly (and also FFDshow ones) builds from here: http://xhmikosr.1f0.de/
Note: they already use ffvp8 from FFmpeg instead of libvpx because of it's better performance and optimizations.
July 25, 2010 12:53 PM
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