[LAU] Playing webM video files (with Mplayer?)
Ken Restivo
ken at restivo.org
Sat Jul 30 18:45:51 UTC 2011
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:46:52PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello Rbn!
> Thanks a lot. I'll update my mplayer then. But youtube said the same
> about mpeg4 (mp4) a while ago. Well they didn't say, that it would go
> into the new html5 standard, but they said, that they wanted to switch to
> it. :-) No discussion here, just to explain, why I said it.
> Thanks again, very much! It's good to hear, that an open video codec
> makes it!
Works on Squeeze, does not work on Lenny.
I too immediately assumed it was some kind of proprietary Windoze codec, until I looked it up.
I hope it gets widely accepted and I'm glad to see Google taking the lead here.
-ken
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