Thanks to Flumotion, GUADEC 2010 is the first live event to use the open source codec WebM for streaming. However, not all browsers and media players have yet released stable versions with support for this format. Therefore it could be necessary to install a newer, more unstable version of your favourite browser. It is recommended to not overwrite your stable browser with the unstable version if you're on a production environment. Instead, you should try to run the unstable browser next to your stable browser and only use it to watch the streaming.

Instead of trying to watch the stream in a web browser you could also try to view the streams in a media player that supports WebM streaming

The software below is not a recommendation, but merely a list of options that we know do or do not work to view the streams. I have found the most easy process being to download a nighlty build of firefox and run that in parallel to my stable version (on unix, start firefox with './firefox -P webm' to run the nighlty build with a new user profile to prevent messing up your default profile.

GUADEC 2010 Stream URLs

Browser support

Browser name

Browser version

Supports the WebM codec

Epiphany

2.28+ with WebKitGTK+ > 1.1.15

Yes, if you have GStreamer support for it

Firefox

3.6.8 and older

No

Firefox

4.0 Beta 1 and newer

Yes, but not in a stable release

Google Chrome

5.0.375.99 and newer

No

Google Chrome

6 Developers Channel and newer

Yes, but not in a stable release

Firefox

Nightly Builds

Yes, but not in a stable release

Opera

10.60 and newer

Yes

When a browser is not listed in the table above we can't guarantee it supports WebM; most likely it won't.

Media player support

Media player name

Media player version

Supports the WebM codec

FFmpeg

0.6 and newer

Yes

GNOME MPlayer

0.9.9.2 and newer

No

Totem

2.30.2 and older

No

Totem

2.90.0 and older

Yes, but not in a stable release

VLC

1.1.0 and newer

Yes

Winamp

5.58 and newer

Yes

XBMC

SVN or nightlies

Yes, but not in a stable release

When a media player is not listed in the table above we can't guarantee it supports WebM; most likely it won't.

GUADEC/2010/WebM (last edited 2013-12-02 17:13:27 by WilliamJonMcCann)