How to Play WebM on Mac OS X
2012-03-25 21:22:46 /
Posted by Brian Fisher to Video Solution
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Since HTML 5 web standard is used by more and more websites, it’s quite easy for you to come across a HTML 5 site. With the lasted version of Safari, the native web browser on you Mac (Lion included), you are able to visit HTML 5 websites via your Mac Safari with ease. And you must have found that almost all HTML 5 videos are high definition ones which is dazzling for watching. HTML 5 videos are in WebM video-audio format newly developed by Google especially for HTML 5 video streaming. This kind of HTML 5 videos is much smaller in file size than other web videos while providing the same HD video quality.
But if you have downloaded some WebM videos on your Mac, video playback is not as easy as you do online via Safari. The native vide player on Mac, say QuickTime, supports playing video in MOV, MP4, M4V and some camcorder AVI clips. So when you click on the downloaded WebM videos on your Mac, you won’t be able to play them on your QuickTime -QuickTime will be gray out. In this case, aiming to play WebM videos on Mac, converting WebM is your fist step.
In order to convert WebM to QuickTime compatible video format, iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac is used. This Mac Converter is outstanding in its high quality, easiness in use, and broad formats support. It even provided some optimized presets for Apple products including iPad, iPhone, iMovie and more so you needn’t to set the output video setting by yourself.
Download the Mac Video Converter and add your WebM videos
After the launch of the WebM Video Converter for Mac, import your original WebM videos into the Mac application: directly drag & drop them to the app or go to the File Menu -> Import -> Add Video Files. The Mac Video Converter supports batch conversions so that you can import several WebM files for converting which must save you a lot of time.
Set a compatible output format
Click on the format icon to open the output formats list provided, then choose MOV as your output format if you wanna play the files on QuickTime. There are almost all popular video and audio formats provided you can convert WebM to, just pick up one you want.
Start to convert WebM on Mac OS X
Hit on Convert and leave the Video Converter for Mac to finish the rest automatically.
After the Mac WebM conversions, you can now play the web videos on Mac player with ease. Enjoy yourself.
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