About the Webm file format
- Name
- WebM Video
- Extension
- .webm
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Developer
- Description
- A WEBM file is a compressed video saved in the WebM format, an open, high-quality video standard. It stores video compressed using VP8 technology and audio compressed using Ogg Vorbis compression. WEBM files are commonly used for delivering online videos using the HTML5 <video> tag.
- MIME Type
- video/webm
- Sample
- sample.webm
- Wikipedia
- .webm on Wikipedia
WebM is a royalty-free audiovisual file format designed for the web. The WebM file takes the place of HTML5 video andHTML5_audio types. Google is the sponsor of this file format, shared under a BSD license. The file uses a Digital container format that has a Matroska profile.
It defines the structure of the container file, video, and audio formats. The file is made up of compressed video streams. Compression of the WebM Video requires the use of either VP8 or VP9 codecs.The VP8 and VP9 codecs have been able to provide small-size videos of high quality.Its codecs make it easy for the file fomart to get through already existing environments.
The WebM format is also efficient in adapting to a new range of devices. Little manual effort is needed to come up with quality results in the encoding process. The file format does well in a low latency environment. For this reason, it is ideal for video-conferencing. WebM guidelines must be followed to the latter for the file format to work in the browser in use.
Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera_(web_browser) have been supporting WebM since 2010. It comes in hand when you need to convert GIFs to smaller size files for web pages.
