Scrolling through webm videos

[rble...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'll be using a lot of videos in the webm format and I'm having trouble finding a program that will allow me to fast forward through the video. Right now I have to convert them to .mp4 but I would really like to cut this step out.

Can you help??

Thanks for your time! 

[matthew....@gmail.com]

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 7:29:14 PM UTC+1, rble...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I'll be using a lot of videos in the webm format and I'm having trouble finding a program that will allow me to fast forward through the video. Right now I have to convert them to .mp4 but I would really like to cut this step out.

You don't say what platform you're on, but mplayer can certainly seek through webm videos.

Regards,

Matt.

[Ralph Giles]

On 2016-07-11 9:36 AM, rble...@gmail.com wrote:

> I'll be using a lot of videos in the webm format and I'm having trouble
> finding a program that will allow me to fast forward through the video.
> Right now I have to convert them to .mp4 but I would really like to cut
> this step out.

It depends what you mean by 'fast forward'. VLC can seek in webm videos
as well, but depending on the encoding there can be a small delay or
glitch. It also supports skipping forward and backw in short steps, and
playback speeds between 1/4x and 4x realtime.

https://www.videolan.org/

Proper scrub support is generally only available in a non-linear video
editing application with a large amount of memory and disk for caching
decoded frames, but that's true of mp4 as well.

Hope that helps,
-r

[Robert B]

Thanks for your response! I ended downloading the k-lite mega codec pack which seemed to do the trick.

Thanks for your time!

[Robert B]

Sorry to email again! I'm up and running for Windows but do u have any advice on how to play webm on macs and be able to manipulate and scroll though the video?

Thanks for your time!

ROB

[rble...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your response! The K-Lite mega codec package did the trick for all my windows users but I have a few mac users that I'm trying to figure out now. By Fast forward I do mean seek through by grabbing the little bar. The newest version of VLC didn't seem to allow seeking through a webm video on their macs. It just snapped back to the beginning. 

[Ralph Giles]

On 2016-07-12 3:57 PM, rble...@gmail.com wrote:

> The newest version of VLC didn't seem to allow seeking
> through a webm video on their macs. It just snapped back to the beginning.

It worked on my mac with a handful of videos I tried. May depend whether
they have in index or not.

-r

[k34jfa]

Thanks for the solution!! k-lite mega codec pack, solved it for me too

[Rodrigue Jean Daniel Pierre]

Thanks to you all ! Problem solved