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, stu@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).
> > 
> > 
>