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title: Opera Supports the WebM Video Format
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- chris-mills
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title: Opera Supports the WebM Video Format
authors:
- chris-mills
intro: 'Today is a very significant day for the Web. WebM, a new, high-quality, free, and open video format is now available, and Opera has released Labs builds that support this format in HTML5 `<video>`. In this article, we look at some examples, how this came about, why it is such a good thing, and what the technical details look like.'
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