Excerpts from Rustom Mody's message of 2010-09-27 09:08:20 +0200:

> 2010/9/25 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>
>
> > by way of lennart's blog, i came across this very instructive video:
> >
> > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/video.html
> >
> > xiph.org's head honcho monty deals with the basics of digital media. if
> > all that signal theory technobabble has always freaked you out, here's a way
> > to get your feet wet without too much discomfort.
> >
> >
> Thanks for this.
>
> I am not able to see this (easily) because the arrow (move forward/backward)
> keys dont work in totem. So is there any tool other than totem to see webm
> files and/or tools to convert webm format to something else?

mplayer works fine here (but it seems webm isn't yet associated with
video, well, tab completion doesn't work for that video file).