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How to create a WebM video file?

Asked 2011-08-05T10:23:26.140
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After looking around the web, I found no way to generate a WebM video. I see drivers for Windows and QuickTime, but no evidence that the most common utility FFmpeg is being supported.

Is there any open source converter that produces WebM?

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I set this up recently, but it's kind of a pain. Here's what I had to do:

First, build ffmpeg from source to include the libvpx drivers (even if your using a version that has it, you need the newest ones (as of this month) to stream webm because they just did add the functionality to include global headers). I did this on an Ubuntu server and desktop, and this guide showed me how - instructions for other OSes can be found here.

Once you've gotten the appropriate version of ffmpeg/ffserver you can set them up for streaming, in my case this was done as follows.

On the video capture device:

ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -standard ntsc -i /dev/video0 http://<server_ip>:8090/0.ffm
  • The "-f video4linux2 -standard ntsc -i /dev/video0" portion of that may change depending on your input source (mine is for a video capture card).

Relevant ffserver.conf excerpt:

Port 8090
#BindAddress <server_ip>
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MAXClients 100
MaxBandwidth 1000000
CustomLog /var/log/ffserver
NoDaemon

<Feed 0.ffm>
File /tmp/0.ffm
FileMaxSize 5M
ACL allow <feeder_ip>
</Feed>
<Feed 0_webm.ffm>
File /tmp/0_webm.ffm
FileMaxSize 5M
ACL allow localhost
</Feed>

<Stream 0.mpg>
Feed 0.ffm
Format mpeg1video
NoAudio
VideoFrameRate 25
VideoBitRate 256
VideoSize cif
VideoBufferSize 40
VideoGopSize 12
</Stream>
<Stream 0.webm>
Feed 0_webm.ffm
Format webm
NoAudio
VideoCodec libvpx
VideoSize 320x240
VideoFrameRate 24
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header
AVOptionVideo cpu-used 0
AVOptionVideo qmin 1
AVOptionVideo qmax 31
AVOptionVideo quality good
PreRoll 0
StartSendOnKey
VideoBitRate 500K
</Stream>

<Stream index.html>
Format status
ACL allow <client_low_ip> <clie
answered 2013-03-16T14:57:31.607
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MiroVideoConverter is a nice cross-platform and open-source wrapper around ffmpeg, which, in particular, supports converting to WebM.

answered 2011-11-24T17:54:16.170
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Try it with avconv:

avconv -i inmovie.mp4 -flags global_header -strict experimental outmovie.webm
answered 2013-06-28T12:44:12.107

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