WebM Video
WebM e um formato de video aberto e livre de royalties, desenvolvido pela Google para a web. Utiliza os codecs de video VP8, VP9 ou AV1 com audio Vorbis ou Opus num container baseado em Matroska. O WebM e suportado nativamente no Chrome, Firefox, Edge e Android.
Tipo MIME
video/webm
Tipo
Binário
Compressão
Com perdas
Vantagens
- + Completely open source and royalty-free
- + VP9 and AV1 offer excellent compression efficiency
- + Native browser support in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera
- + Opus audio provides superior quality at low bitrates
Desvantagens
- − Not natively supported on Safari (pre-2020) or older Apple devices
- − Smaller ecosystem of editing tools compared to MP4
- − AV1 encoding is very slow compared to H.264
Quando usar .WEBM
Use WebM para video web quando preferir codecs livres de royalties, especialmente com VP9 ou AV1 para excelente qualidade por bit.
Detalhes técnicos
O WebM e um perfil do container Matroska restrito a video VP8/VP9/AV1 e audio Vorbis/Opus. Utiliza marcacao binaria EBML e foi concebido para streaming web de baixo overhead.
Histórico
A Google lancou o WebM em 2010 apos adquirir a On2 Technologies e disponibilizar o VP8 como codigo aberto. O VP9 surgiu em 2013 e o AV1 (desenvolvido pela Alliance for Open Media) foi adicionado em 2018.
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