VPx and WebM Tools

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There are free and commercial tools available for creating and publishing content in the WebM format.

Free and Open Source Tools

Adobe Plug-ins

WebM plug-in for Adobe Premier Pro et al. (BSD-licensed)

https://github.com/fnordware/AdobeWebM

FFmpeg

FFmpeg ships with libvpx support that can be configured at compile time. See the WebM wiki pages for compilation tips and ffmpeg arguments pertaining to libvpx.

A WebM user maintains a public spreadsheet (last seen 20140915) that attempts to map vpxenc arguments to ffmpeg arguments.

DirectShow Filters

We provide DirectShow filters for playing and working with WebM on Windows. Once the filters are installed on your system, applications that use the DirectShow framework (such as Windows Media Player, and others) will be able to play and encode WebM media. Note that you'll also need to install Vorbis audio support.

Follow these steps to get started:

1. Visit our downloads page.

2. Download the latest WebM Directshow .zip archive. The download filename is similar to

   webmdshow-<version number>-<date>.zip

3. Extract the archive to your local disk. Locate and run (double-click) the Windows installer program install_webmdshow.exe, and follow the prompts.

4. The .zip archive also contains the complete source of the WebM DirectShow filters, as well as the utility programs playwebm.exe and makewebm.exe. See the file README.TXT for more information.

5. To uninstall, locate the WebM DirectShow entry in your Windows system's Add/Remove Programs tool.

6. WebM files contain Vorbis audio, but Windows does not currently support Vorbis by default. An easy fix is to install the set of DirectShow filters provided by the Xiph Foundation. Download at Xiph.org

libvpx SDK

If you're interested in building native VP8/VP9 decode and encode funtionality into your own applications, the libvpx SDK is for you.

• Acquiring the libvpx source code

GStreamer Plug-ins

For GStreamer releases prior to v1.0 (2012-09-25), the following plug-in packages and minimum versions are required for WebM support:

gst-plugins-bad-0.10.19 further requires that libvpx be installed.

As of GStreamer 1.0, WebM-related support will be included in gst-plugins-good. gst-plugins-bad will not be required.

GStreamer download directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/

Flumotion Streaming Software

The open source version of Flumotion Streaming Software supports WebM live streaming from version 0.8.0. View a demo and download the latest release at flumotion.net. (Note: WebM live streaming requires the latest GStreamer plug-ins release.)

Non-commercial WebM Tools

Product	Description
	Arista Transcoder Desktop transcoder app for Linux (GNOME)
	Firefogg Transcoder extension for Firefox (cross-platform)
	Haali Media Splitter Multiformat media file splitter for Windows
	Icecast Streaming media server (GNU GPL v2)
	r2d2 FFMpeg wrapper script for capturing screencasts (Linux)
	Transmageddon Desktop transcoder app for *NIX
	XMedia Recode Desktop transcoder app for Windows

Commercial WebM Tools

Company	Product link
	Allegro DVT VP9 Compliance Streams
	Argon Streams VP9
	Compression Labs
	Encoding.com
	EntropyWave
	Flumotion WebM Live Streaming
	Gomi
	Hey!Watch
	Intel VP9 Video Pro Analyzer Intel Stress Bitstreams and Encoder for VP9
	Panda
	Squeeze Desktop Squeeze Server Squeeze Solution Pack
	FlipFactory
	Tremendum Transcoder
	Two Orioles VP9 Analyzer
	VisioForge Video Capture SDK .Net
	Wildform Flix
	Wowza Media Systems
	Zencoder Video Encoding API

Mailing List

Follow the webm-discuss mailing list to get assistance from the WebM user community.