Google open sourced its WebM video format in May, and more and more applications as well as video vendors are starting to support the new format. However, how do you actually play back WebM videos? This handy little guide tells you all you need to know. 
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This week's GUADEC conference in The Hague is the first event ever to be live streamed in the new open source WebM video codec. The livestream is hosted by Flumotion, and the company's CTO Thomas Vander Stichele believes that WebM could become mainstream soon.
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WebM, Google's new royalty-free, open source video codec, launched with a formidable list of partners -- but support for the format continues to grow as new partners come on board. The latest to join is Winamp, which added support for WebM in its latest media player.
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FFmpeg released a new version 0.6 with support for Google's open source WebM video codec this week. FFmpeg is a suite of tools and libraries that is an important backbone of many well-known video players, transcoding applications and even TV platforms like Boxee, VLC and MPlayer.
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Today on the Net: More rumors about Hulu's subscription and mobile device plans emerge, Mozilla commits to adding WebM support in the next version of Firefox and AT&T U-verse adds ESPN 3-D ahead of the World Cup, making it the third affiliate to do so.
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Google first introduced its WebM Project a few weeks ago at its I/O developers conference, launching the royalty free, open source video format with support from Firefox and Opera web browsers. But notably missing from the list of supporting applications was Google's own Chrome browser.
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Intel could add Google's WebM to the list of video formats that have hardware acceleration built into its processors for consumer electronics devices. But that support won't come in time for the first generation of Google TV products to leverage it.
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Want to play videos encoded with WebM, the new video format that Google open sourced at its developers conference last week? Well, look no further: The new version of VLC supports WebM playback. Another feature included in the new release is hardware decoding for H.264 videos. 
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Google's new open source video format WebM will become more popular than H.264 in one to two years, Brightcove's President and COO David Mendels predicts. One of the first major websites to try out WebM for its web videos could be the New York Times.
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Theora's Monty Montgomery is excited about Google's announcement to open source VP8 with its WebM Project, but doesn't believe it will kill Theora in the near future. Other open source and open video advocates are stoked as well, but some caution about possible patent lawsuits.
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