Re: Theora and WeBM support in Firefox and Opera

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:26 AM, dos386 <[email protected]> wrote:
> ### WeBM support in YouTube and Internet
>
> The obsession is high (many pages about the thing, most opinions
> positive to very positive), but lack of working examples. Even worse,
> most of such pages "offer" videos or link to video pages doing nothing
> or "You must enable Javascript and download latest Flash player" ...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/
> http://www.youtube.com/html5
>
> It doesn't work. Either the page doesn't load, it doesn't find any
> videos, or switches immediately back to the old "You must enable
> Javascript and download latest Flash player" ... Where are all the new
> videos in WeBM format ???

First, you must join YouTube's HTML5 beta.  You will not get WebM
video unless you do this:

http://www.youtube.com/html5 -> "Join the HTML5 Beta"

Once that's done, you can do a search for videos that are encoded in WebM:

http://www.webmproject.org/users/#playing_on_youtube

Basically you add "&webm=1" to the search URL, ie.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=webm&aq=f&webm=1 .
Clicking on any of the search results should give you a video in WebM
format, like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fHh3a2ub4

I just tried the above steps using Chromium from the daily PPA (
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa ) and it works for
me.

Denver
http://ossguy.com/