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Opera supports the WebM video format

By Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO. Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:01:41 AM

You might have read up on (and experimented) with the new HTML5

What might be the solution is WebM, an open Web media project. This was announced publicly at the 2010 Google I/O conference. Opera has created an experimental WebM-enabled build, which you can play with today:

Windows:

Mac:

Linux:

In case you want some examples, the following videos have a HTML5·WEBM version available:

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Comments

dirkthetomster # Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:22:53 AM

Mistra # Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:25:11 AM

tốt

d4rkn1ght # Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:33:31 AM

Abhinavdecodedthought # Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:39:13 AM

coolmyll # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:13:31 AM

Any program to encode videos in this form?

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:22:10 AM

This is flipping the best IT news this year.

I hope patented codecs are gonna die.

NicoHellbillyDeluxe # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:36:30 AM

Awesome! Hopefully, H.264 will disappear soon in favor of open standards.

sleepyheadbooz0r # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:36:37 AM

very nice!

and a huge jump in the Build number too

DrillSarge # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:39:24 AM

They dropped the bomb

And thanks to Google

Matthew Wilcoxsonmwilco # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:42:37 AM

Very cool - lets hope this really does solve the HTML5 Video "disagreement" (read "fiasco"...)

VarunVarunM # Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:07:43 AM

Some more clarification on the builds.
Is this a one off build or will the WEBM supported snapshot builds be available through Desktop Blog?

Ruarí Ødegaardruario # Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:22:12 AM

Originally posted by VarunM:

Is this a one off build or will the WEBM supported snapshot builds be available through Desktop Blog?

Snapshots will appear with WebM, once we have done a little more internal work.

@Linux users: Just to clarify, the "Ubuntu" label on the Linux builds reflects the fact that due to tight time scales we did not have time to test a full range of distros. It works in the most recent Ubuntu and I can confirm having tested it myself that it works in Archlinux. However, you may encounter issues (at the moment) if your distro is not so bleeding edge. My advice would be to try it and see if it works for you.

Your best bet is to run it 'in place', i.e.

$ tar xf opera-10.54-21867-webm.i386.linux.tar.bz2
$ opera-10.54-21867-webm.i386.linux/opera &

If you really want to use your main profile (not at all recommended but it is your choice), change that last line to:

$ opera-10.54-21867-webm.i386.linux/opera -pd ~/.opera &

Alternatively, you can use the included install script to install it but we would then recommend that you install with a suffix to allow it to run alongside your main install.

P.S. See also the desktop team blog post for further comments from users and also the thread in the Beta forum.

Ngô Thế Vinhntvim88 # Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:36:06 AM

Hey, can I have some Url of WebM video in Youtube to test

JaredpieRr0Ur # Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:39:09 AM

Ruarí Ødegaardruario # Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:57:01 AM

Originally posted by ntvim88:

Hey, can I have some Url of WebM video in Youtube to test

Examples were listed above in the blog post itself!

Tamil # Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:21:24 PM

z@h3kZAHEK # Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:33:47 PM

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:53:37 PM

Avola # Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:55:02 PM

Meh, I won't be switching from flash yet. WebM seems to load videos slower, there is no buffer bar, and most of the time you can't seek. And no fullscreen yet. I know Flash sucks, but at the moment

Avola # Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:31:48 PM

Yep. Just saying, it's at least going to be a while before it's worth actually using.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:46:39 PM

masheru pratamamazheru # Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:43:47 PM

very good

Abhinavdecodedthought # Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:11:16 PM

Opera 10.50
have always loved this video !

Angelikiellinidata # Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:30:27 PM

and

I love the new banner!

Ngô Thế Vinhntvim88 # Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:58:37 PM

Hey, I see that Opera dev version cant load video when i pointed 1 point in buffer bar, but Chrome can do it.
Although, Chrome write in video player toolbar HTLM5, while we have HTML5.WebM.

Viva Opera. I hope ur developer can fix it in a moment

PS: when i wrote above, video full-loaded and i can go to any part of video in smooth. So, you only fix this error when Video player don't load all of this video yet.

@Anyone like watch video in WebM supported by our Great Opera, do something to check-it-out
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=1 to 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 (http://www.webmproject.org/users/)

Robert Lawsrobert-laws # Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:33:23 PM

I really like Opera. It is better than any other browser

Jarasmen # Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:09:32 PM

I'd like this a lot more, if any of the linked Youtube vidoes were working for me. Yes, I did the update, the players looks okay, but it never starts playing or finishes loading.

Jorjyjorjy27 # Friday, May 21, 2010 6:49:31 AM

Hurray!

Christian Urbanciganinho85 # Friday, May 21, 2010 10:38:51 AM

I want to post it on my facebookwall, but some User dont like it!

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, May 21, 2010 1:52:35 PM

Christian Urban try the forms and might want to translate that warning message so they can see what it means

Christian Urbanciganinho85 # Friday, May 21, 2010 3:02:10 PM

@Charles Schloss

"Warning: This message contains blocked content"
"Contents of this message were announced of Facebook users as abuse."

I get this popup if i want to post this on facebook with the facebook Button under the Message.

I test it on my facebook account, there can i post this message.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Friday, May 21, 2010 3:58:22 PM

Same here, tried to report their error

I received a warning from Facebook
When I try posting a link, I receive an error message that says, "The link you are trying to visit has been reported as abusive by Facebook users."
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17430

dirkthetomster # Friday, May 21, 2010 5:35:40 PM

for me it works ... just copy pasted the title of the blog to my wall and attached the link ...

Ruarí Ødegaardruario # Saturday, May 22, 2010 12:02:36 PM

If you are a Linux user you'll be pleased to see that more distros are now supported. If you tried once and it failed to work try downloading again. Read more here.