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How To Watch HTML5 WebM Videos On YouTube
Mark R Robertson
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YouTube has already started transcoding video to the new WebM/VP8 codec but you can't access it. Or can you? YouTube is already working on integrating WebM into their ongoing HTML 5 efforts and if you join in the fun you can experience it for yourself.
How to Watch WebM on YouTube:
- Get yourself a WebM/VP8 supporting browser. Currently there are only 2 options, a nightly build Firefox (meaning pre-release candidate or in other words, potentially unstable) or an in-progress Opera version which will also support it:
- Google Chromium (the Developer version of Chrome's core)
- Firefox
- Opera
- Google Chrome – Currently supports both H.264 and Ogg. And obviously they will support WebM too…perhaps exclusively (which is doubtful).
- To get to some YouTube WebM/VP8 videos you can take a standard YouTube URL and add &webm=1 to it. What this does is tell YouTube to supply the content (if available) in that format.
- Standard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxQiI8c1Bs
- HTML 5 WebM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxQiI8c1Bs&webm=1
- Laugh maniacally (optional)
You know what would be really cool YouTube, a button. Yes, a simple button, that gave us all the possible formats so that we could simply switch from one to another. Really, a drop down menu item would be great. Wouldn't it? It would allow us to switch between formats at will.
Here's a bigger look at the HTML 5 WebM YouTube:
Categories: Video Technology and Web Video Industry News. Tags: h.264, HTML5, Mozilla, tips, tutorial, VP8, webM, and YouTube.What do you think? ▼
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