Hard Core Rikki
17th March 2011, 10:47
With Internet Explorer 9 out the door, Google released a plugin for WebM (payback for MS' bringing h264 back (http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-puts-h-264-video-back-into-chrome/) to Chrome when it announced to be ditching it?)
With a lack of much material to play with it, Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/html5) remains the most notable source for WebM-encoded videos (other than one's own encodes).
Introducing WebM in Internet Explorer 9
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 10:09 AM
Today we're making available a preview release of Microsoft Media Foundation (MF) components for WebM. Microsoft has also announced the components on the IE Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/16/html5-video-update-webm-for-ie9.aspx) and posted a demo page (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/videoformatsupport/default.html).
As Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch wrote last year on the Windows Blog (http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/05/19/another-follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx), when these components are installed in Windows they enable rendering of WebM media in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (http://windows.microsoft.com/ie9). Because the components are installed directly in Windows, the components can also render WebM in other applications that support MF, such as Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7.
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The good source: http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/introducing-webm-in-internet-explorer-9.html
With a lack of much material to play with it, Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/html5) remains the most notable source for WebM-encoded videos (other than one's own encodes).
Introducing WebM in Internet Explorer 9
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 10:09 AM
Today we're making available a preview release of Microsoft Media Foundation (MF) components for WebM. Microsoft has also announced the components on the IE Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/16/html5-video-update-webm-for-ie9.aspx) and posted a demo page (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/videoformatsupport/default.html).
As Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch wrote last year on the Windows Blog (http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/05/19/another-follow-up-on-html5-video-in-ie9.aspx), when these components are installed in Windows they enable rendering of WebM media in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (http://windows.microsoft.com/ie9). Because the components are installed directly in Windows, the components can also render WebM in other applications that support MF, such as Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7.
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The good source: http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/03/introducing-webm-in-internet-explorer-9.html