WebM

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WebM
WebM logo
Filename extension .webm
Internet media type video/webm,
audio/webm
Developed by Initially On2, Xiph, and Matroska; later Google
Initial release 19 May 2010; 3 years ago (2010-05-19)[1]
Type of format Media container
Container for VP8/VP9 (video)
Vorbis/Opus (audio)
Extended from Matroska
Open format? Yes[2]
Website www.webmproject.org

WebM is an audio-video container format designed to provide royalty-free, open video compression for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google Inc.

A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska.[2][3][4] The project releases WebM-related software under a BSD license and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

WebM was to be updated to accommodate the VP9 video codec and the Opus audio codec on June 17, 2013, according to Google.[5] The updated version was released two weeks later.[6]

Vendor support[edit]

Software[edit]

Native WebM support by Mozilla Firefox,[7][8] Opera,[9][10] and Google Chrome[11] was announced at the 2010 Google I/O conference. Internet Explorer 9 requires third-party WebM software.[12] Safari for Windows and Mac OS X relies on QuickTime to play web media,[13] which as of 1 April 2011 (2011-04-01), does not support WebM[14][15] unless a third-party plug-in is installed.[16] In January 2011, Google announced that the WebM Project Team will release plugins for Internet Explorer and Safari to allow playback of WebM files through the standard HTML5 <video> tag.[17] As of 9 June 2012 (2012-06-09), a public preview version of this plug-in is available for Internet Explorer 9.[18]

Adobe Systems announced that its Flash Player will be updated to support WebM, but no exact date was specified for its addition.[19][20]

Media players such as Miro,[21][22] and Winamp,[23][24] have announced support. VLC media player,[25] MPlayer and K-Multimedia Player have native support for playing WebM files.[26] FFmpeg can now encode and decode VP8 videos when built with libvpx support, as well as mux/demux WebM-compliant files.[27] On 23 July 2010, Jason Garrett-Glaser, Ronald Bultje, and David Conrad of the FFmpeg team announced the ffvp8 decoder. Through testing they determined that ffvp8 was faster than Google's own libvpx decoder.[28][29] mkvtoolnix, the popular Matroska creation tools, have implemented support for multiplexing/demultiplexing WebM-compliant files out of the box.[30] Haali Media Splitter has also announced support for muxing/demuxing of WebM.[30] As of version 1.4.9, the LiVES video editor has support for realtime decoding and for encoding to WebM format using ffmpeg libraries.

MPC-HC as of SVN 2071 and higher builds supports WebM playback with internal VP8 decoder based on FFmpeg's code.[28][31] The full decoding support for WebM is available in MPC-HC since version 1.4.2499.0.[32]

Android is WebM-enabled since version 2.3 - Gingerbread,[33] which was first made available via the Nexus S mobile phone and streamable since Android 4.0[34]

Hardware[edit]

WebM Project licenses VP8 hardware accelerators (RTL IP) to semiconductor companies for 1080p encoding and decoding at zero cost.[35] AMD, ARM and Broadcom have announced support for hardware acceleration of the WebM format.[36][37] Intel is also considering hardware-based acceleration for WebM in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity.[38] Qualcomm and Texas Instruments have announced support,[39][40] with native support coming to the TI OMAP processor.[41] Chip&Media have announced a fully hardware decoder for VP8 that can decode full HD resolution VP8 streams at 60 frames per second.[42]

Nvidia is supporting VP8 and provides both hardware decoding and encoding in the Tegra 4 and Tegra 4i SoCs.[43]

On 7 January 2011, Rockchip released the world's first chip to host a full hardware implementation of 1080p VP8 decoding. The video acceleration in the RK29xx chip is handled by the WebM Project's G-Series 1 hardware decoder IP.[44]

In June 2011, ZiiLABS demonstrated their 1080p VP8 decoder implementation running on the ZMS-20 processor. The chip's programmable media processing array is used to provide the VP8 acceleration.[45]

Also ST-Ericsson and Huawei have hardware implementations in their computer chips.[46]

Services[edit]

YouTube offers WebM videos as part of its HTML5 player experiment.[47]

All uploaded files are encoded into WebM in 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p resolutions. YouTube has committed to encode its entire portfolio of videos to WebM.[48][49] The YouTube app for the Nintendo Wii uses WebM for streaming videos[50] or H.263 as a fall-back option.[51]

Licensing[edit]

In May 2010, Simon Phipps, a board member for the Open Source Initiative, expressed doubts as to whether the original WebM license was an open-source license, since it had not been submitted to the OSI for approval.[59] In response, the WebM Project decoupled patents from copyright, offering the code under a standard BSD license and patents under a separate grant.[60] The Free Software Foundation, which maintains the Free Software Definition, has given its endorsement for WebM and VP8[61] and considers the software's license to be compatible with the GNU General Public License.[62][63] On 19 January 2011, the Free Software Foundation announced its official support for the WebM project.[64] However, in February 2011, Microsoft's Vice President of Internet Explorer still called upon Google to provide indemnification against patent suits.[65]

Although Google has irrevocably released all of its patents on VP8 as a royalty-free format,[66] the MPEG LA, licensors of the H.264 patent pool, have expressed interest in creating a patent pool for VP8.[67][68] Conversely, other researchers cite evidence that On2 made a particular effort to avoid any MPEG LA patents.[69] As a result of the threat, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) started an investigation in March 2011 into the MPEG LA for its role in possibly attempting to stifle competition.[70][71] In March 2013, MPEG LA announced that it had reached an agreement with Google to license patents that "may be essential" for the implementation of the VP8 codec, and give Google the right to sub-license these patents to any third-party user of VP8 or VP9.[72][73]

In March 2013, Nokia filed an objection to the Internet Engineering Task Force concerning Google's proposal for the VP8 codec to be a core part of WebM, saying it holds essential patents to VP8's implementation.[74] Nokia listed 64 patents and 22 pending applications, adding it was not prepared to license any of them for VP8.[75] However, as of August 5, 2013, a court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled that VP8 does not infringe a patent owned and asserted by Nokia.[76]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ a b "WebM FAQ". 19 May 2010. "WebM is an open media file format designed for the web. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska media container." 
  3. ^ Doig, Jeremy; Jazayeri, Mike (19 May 2010), Introducing WebM, an open web media project, WebM Project, retrieved 19 May 2010 
  4. ^ Montgomery, Chris (19 May 2010), Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project, Xiph, retrieved 20 May 2010 
  5. ^ Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it | Internet & Media - CNET News
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  9. ^ Lie, Håkon Wium (19 May 2010). "Welcome, WebM <video>!". Opera Labs. Opera Software ASA. Retrieved 8 March 2011. 
  10. ^ Mills, Chris (19 May 2010). "Opera supports the WebM video format". Dev.Opera. Opera Software ASA. Retrieved 8 March 2011. "On the day of the announcement, Opera released an experimental WebM-enabled build. This feature is now part of the core functionality of Opera 10.60 and all of our future desktop browser releases." 
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  12. ^ Hachamovitch, Dean (16 March 2011). "HTML5 Video Update—WebM for IE9". IEBlog. Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 16 March 2011. "IE9 supports HTML5 video using WebM for Windows customers who install third-party WebM support. As an industry, we still face many legitimate, unanswered questions about liability, risks, and support for WebM, such as [~snip~]." 
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  23. ^ Winamp Player Features, Nullsoft 
  24. ^ Winamp 5.58 Released, 29 June 2010 
  25. ^ VideoLan - VLC 1.1.0 Release, VideoLAN 
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  27. ^ ffmpeg 0.6 release, ffmpeg.org, 15 June 2010 
  28. ^ a b Diary Of An x264 Developer: Announcing the world’s fastest VP8 decoder 
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  34. ^ https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
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  39. ^ Talluri, Raj (19 May 2010), Google's Impact on Web Video, Qualcomm 
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  42. ^ Chips&Media delivers latest dual HD video IP core with VP8 hardware decoding capability, Design & Reuse, 18 November 2010 
  43. ^ http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/116757/Tegra_4_GPU_Whitepaper_FINALv2.pdf
  44. ^ Rockchip and WebM Release RK29xx -- World's First SOC to Support WebM HD Video Playback in Hardware, PRNewsWire, 7 January 2011 
  45. ^ ZiiLABS VP8 Support Delivers Smooth Playback of 1080p WebM Video on ZMS Processors, ZiiLABS, 11 June 2011 
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  56. ^ http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/05/introducing-3d-webm-support-with-nvidia.html  Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  60. ^ DiBona, Chris (4 June 2010), Changes to the WebM Open Source License, WebM 
  61. ^ Lee, Matt (19 May 2010), Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8, Free Software Foundation 
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  67. ^ Metz, Cade (21 May 2010), Google open video codec may face patent clash, The Register 
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  70. ^ Catan, Thomas (4 March 2011), Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe, The Wall Street Journal 
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  75. ^ "Nokia Corporation's Statement about IPR related to RFC 6386". 21 March 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2013. 
  76. ^ http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/08/good-news-from-germany.html

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