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Hi Julien,
Update your mplayer and it'll play. webm uses vorbis for audio and matroska for the container.  Both have been supported in mplayer for a while.

All that is new is the VP8 video-codec.  ffmpeg already has support for it (though libwebm and IIRC also some internal decoder); so you could try 'ffplay'.  Maybe you just  need to update mplayer/ffmpeg/libav* to the latest version of your distribution.
And no, it's not YET ANOTHER FORMAT. If things work out it'll become the first /widely used/ royality-free and open codec for video and make it into the HTML5 standard. - well there's a bit more to it, but hey.. no time for love Dr Jones.
ciao,

robin
On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello everyone!

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>  I've just seen, that youtube obviously is encouraging yet another new format on their website. Now it's webM. Is there a simple way to play these files?

>  Again mark one restraint for my setup: It has to be commandline?

>  Kidnest regards

>           Julien

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