[SOLVED] Play .webm video on safari

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Does anyone know how to play .webm videos on Safari

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Normally, for video textures, I use mp4 files. There are dozens of converters on the net, so it shouldn’t be too tough.

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But i need to play transparent video. Webm supports transparent video

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Safari hasn’t fully implemented Webm support yet, so not much you can do until Apple adds that in place. There used to be a number of plug-ins for desktop Safari that enabled Webm playback but support for plug-ins has been dropped.

For the moment if you would like to play a transparent video in Playcanvas you could use some form of chromakey shader with a green-screen mp4 video:

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As you mentioned the quality is poor that’s why i moved to transparent video.Is there any other way of playing .webm videos in IOS safari or Chrome. It works fine in android

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https://caniuse.com/#search=webm

Partial Support: Only supports VP8 used in WebRTC.

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Chrome and the other browsers on iOS still use the webview of Safari for rendering (Apple security rule). So basically they can’t have a different feature set than what Safari provides.

Indeed there is partial support of the Google VP8 codec in WebRTC, as Will said, on iOS though I have no idea if that can be used to decode a file, most likely it used only to compress the camera stream among peers.

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Thank you so much Leonidas and will.After surfing some blogs i came to an end i can’t do it.Let me do it for android only