On Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 10:20:09PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > aargh, webp vs webm, sorry for the noise.
WebM is a container format like Matroska. Most codecs I see on Youtube these days are WebM/VP9 and MP4/H.264 and for 8K I see AV1. yt-dlp --list-formats is your friend. > > On Mar 19 19:29:58, s...@spacehopper.org wrote: > > On 2025/03/19 19:55, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > > The libwebp wrapper is only an encoder > > > > > > Is there a webp decoder available please? > > > > already present in FFmpeg. > > > > ftp > > https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Large-Sample-webp-Image-download-for-Testing.webp > > ffplay Large-Sample-webp-Image-download-for-Testing.webp > > > > > Many videos on e.g. youtube tend to be webp. > > > > youtube, really? do you have an example? that's unexpected for a > > standard video hosting site as it's mostly a static image format (there > > are some webp animations but it's more like animated gif than something > > suitable for normal videos). (they do use it a lot for thumbnails afaik > > though). > > > > >
