Source format
WEBM
WebM (a Google project)
Born for the web, it uses only open, royalty-free codecs. It’s the format many browsers use to record the screen and webcam. Outside the browser, though, it doesn’t always open.
- Best for
- Videos for websites, screen recordings.
- Limits
- Some editing programs, TVs and older iPhones can’t read it.
- Type
- video container for the web
- Typical codecs
- VP8, VP9, AV1, Opus
- Compatibility
- all modern browsers
- Extensions
- .webm
- Since
- 2010