mov to webm osx

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Super easy webm screencasts on OSX

Record your screencasts as movie files (.mov) using quicktime.

Build ffmpeg

1. Install yasm http://yasm.tortall.net/Download.html
2. Install libvpx https://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/list
3. Install https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

• Add the libvpx flag: ./configure --enable-libvpx

Convert .mov files to .webm with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i cast.mov cast.webm

Embedding videos is easy. MDN <video> tag reference

<video src="cast.webm" autoplay loop="true">
  Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos,
  but don't worry, you can <a href="cast.webm">download it</a>
  and watch it with your favorite video player!
</video>

Demo webm

Side tutorial for building from source

This is the general process on unix systems

wget filename.tar.gz
tar -xvf filename.tar.gz
cd filename
./configure
make
make install 

Thanks! It was really helpful.
I used brew to install all needed packages.

brew install yasm
ffmpeg -i cast.mov cast.webm

Why do you need "yasm"? What is it for?

Why do you need "yasm"? What is it for?

It is a dependency for libvpx for building on x86, check out the prerequisites here https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx