How To Play Webm Videos
We have just reviewed one of the first video converters that is supporting the new webm format. The conversion creates videos with the extension .webm and it is only natural to try and play it on the installed video player.
Chance is the video player does not support webm out of the box, at least not in its current installation.
There are actually only a handful of solutions currently available to play webm videos on the local computer system.
We would like to review two different options to play webm videos and would encourage anyone to comment if they know of another way of playing webm files on the computer systme.
VLC Media Player: The VLC Media Player 1.1.0 Pre-Release candidate for Windows supports the webm video format. All it takes is to install the video player to play webm videos on the PC. The version is currently only offered for Windows. It is likely that webm support will be added to all supported operating systems in the final version of VLC 1.1.0.
K-Lite Codec Pack Beta: Not everyone likes to install codec packs but the K-Lite Codec Pack is one of the first to include a webm video decoder. Installing this decoder will add global support for webm video to the Windows operating system.
Do you know of another option to play .webm videos? Let us know in the comments.
QQPlayer plays webm files.
in order to play webm video successfully, you can convert webm to other video formats like avi, mp4, wmv
just google search Step by Step Guide on How to Convert MP4, AVI, FLV, WMV to WebM on Mac and Windows?
you will find step by step guide on how to convert various video formats to webm as well convert webm to almost all popular video formats including avi, mov, wmv, mpg, vob, flv, asf, mkv, 3gp and more
Miro video converter (freeware) will convert them to other formats (avi, flv etc). I use it when I want to burn the Webm videos to disc for later viewing.
I recommend to use VLC media player, better not codec pack, for codec pack often cause problems.
The WebM format holds a lot of potential for open source development and the web, I hope the axis of evil doesn’t find a way to hinder it.
I already have VLC media player which I think is great, I’ll have to grab the latest K-Lite codec pack as well, thanks for the tip.
http://www.webmproject.org/users/
Pre-release versions of Mozilla, Chrome, and Opera can all play WebM files now. You can expect this to come to regular versions of these browsers soon. There is also expected a plug-in for IE soon, and Flash support as well.
Jonny that is a good tip. It is possible to drag and drop the webm video into the browser window to play it there.