WebM video files play directly in your web browser using a new technology called HTML5. No plug-ins are required, but you must install a web browser that supports WebM files. See the instructions below in "How to Play WebM Videos."
What's Great About WebM
- Very high quality video
- Great video playback performance, even on older computers
- 100% free and open to everyone
- Supported on popular video sites like YouTube
How to Play WebM Video
Playing on YouTube
- Download and install a supported browser (listed below).
- Start the newly installed browser.
- Go to www.youtube.com/html5 and enroll in the YouTube HTML5 experiment.
- Search for a video by keyword. For example, trailers.
- In the browser's address bar, add
&webm=1to the end of the URL. For example,http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailers&aq=f&webm=1. - Press Enter.
- In the list of videos that appears, click any of the links.
- The video will play in your browser and display HTML5 webm in the toolbar of the video player.
Supported Web Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1 and later
- Opera 10.60 and later
- Google Chrome 6, beta and dev channels
- Chromium nightly trunk build as of 20100520
Other Media Players
Getting Help
Ask and answer questions on the webm-discuss list.