5
1
What options are there for playing WebM video files on Mac OS X other than VLC? A plugin to Quicktime Player would be perfect.
Daniel Beck
Posted 2012-02-01T12:10:35.240
Reputation: 98 421
WebM on Mac OS X
Answers
2
Perian, a QuickTime plugin should support WebM since version 1.2.2 according to their website.
lupincho
Posted 2012-02-01T12:10:35.240
Reputation: 1 630
2
Not really much to choose from on OS X. While Perian is indeed VP8-capable, to play modern VP9 WebM's you may try minimalistic mpv player.
On the second thought, you may not need a dedicated video player for any WebM at all, just open the file with any recent version of Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari and watch the video.
Neurotransmitter
Posted 2012-02-01T12:10:35.240
Reputation: 996
WebM's may be different. Perian allows QuickTime Player to open now obsolete VP8 encoded WebM files, but it doesn't enable it to play modern VP9 WebM's. – Neurotransmitter – 2015-07-15T19:21:27.720
2I have Perian 1.2.3 and Quicktime Player 10.1 on OS X Lion fails to open
.webmfiles with an error message. – Daniel Beck – 2012-02-01T13:18:23.477Could be, I've never tried it. It may be that WebM is a mess of formats and containers as other formats before ir and Perian supports some but not all of them. – lupincho – 2012-02-01T13:25:34.053
Judging from the Wikipedia article, it seems rather well defined. Still, +1 because someone apparently got it working, otherwise it wouldn't be in Perian. – Daniel Beck – 2012-02-01T13:30:08.717
Works for me too, with Perian 1.2.3. Added evidence to the answer ;) @dan – slhck – 2012-02-01T13:45:03.127
The problem may be QuickTime X in Lion. Possible Link
– afrazier – 2012-02-01T16:20:40.890@lupincho can you please take a look at this post? http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/134990/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-play-webm-in-safari-perian-doesnt-work?stw=2 Perian didn't work for me :(
– Mona Jalal – 2014-06-14T09:07:56.130