WebM: Manage the open source video format on GNU / Linux
WebM, Like WebP, is a format of open source created by Google, but in this case for multimedia files, that is to say, videos mainly. It has also been released for several years, but it is after the launch of the format WebP.
Basically creating WebM focused on improve the management of video files with the main objective of allowing the reproduction of Internet videos from any device in a more optimal way.
This new format WebM since its inception it has been designed for a more efficient use and integrated with HTML5. In addition, to make use of the VP8 and VP9 codecs to achieve a considerable compression. In such a way that the extraction can be performed even with little computing power.
Also, as is already public knowledge, YouTube, as a subsidiary of Google, currently converts all your videos to the WebM, regardless of the original file format, so that when a video is downloaded this is its default format.
To know more about WebP in DesdeLinux You can read the previous related articles:
And to read more about the format WebP, can read our previous post to this, called:
WebM: Open source video format
The format WebM has a Official website where it is described as:
"WebM is a royalty-free, open source file format designed for the web".
In addition, it highlights that:
"WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with VP8 or VP9 video codecs and audio streams compressed with Vorbis or Opus audio codecs. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container".
WebM video thumbnails in Thunar
In my case, as I use a modified version of MX Linux, which uses the XFCE Desktop Environment natively, the method used successfully to display the thumbnails in the Thunar File Explorer It was the following:
- Insert or validate that in the named file
«ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer»with the following command command:
«sudo nano /usr/share/thumbnailers/ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer»
- The following reference exists
«video/webm»in the configuration line that starts with«MimeType»Why did the content remain as follows:
[Thumbnailer Entry]
TryExec=ffmpegthumbnailer
Exec=ffmpegthumbnailer -i %i -o %o -s %s -f
MimeType=video/jpeg;video/mp4;video/mpeg;video/quicktime;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wm;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-flv;video/x-matroska;video/webm;video/mp2t;
- Restart the user session and test by opening Thunar to view thumbnails of images WebM.
Note: Validate having the packages installed «ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer y libvpx5». This last package may, depending on the Distribution and Repositories, come in a different version, that is, «libvpx6 y libvpx7».
Play and edit WebM videos
For such tasks, I recommend using the universal video player VLC and the video editor Pitivi. Unlike WebP, WebM is more universal in the GNU / Linux apps, that is, it has greater support in most of the Video Players and Editors.
Online tools to create (convert) videos to WebM
In case of, not having on hand about GNU / Linux a good application for such work, although VLC works perfectly for it, and also Mystique, there are always many good tools online to convert many things, such as file formats. videos. But specifically for videos WebM we recommend trying: OnlineUniConverter.
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