With the release of macOS Big Sur 11.3 beta 2 this week, Safari can finally play WebM videos. As noted by The 8-Bit, WebM video compatibility has been added to Safari with macOS Big Sur 11.3 beta 2.

MKVToolNix is a set of free tool that allow you to create, alter, split, join and inspect WebM and Matroska video MKV files. Works on Windows as well.

WebM files will only play on desktop Safari when running the macOS 11.3 beta 2, and does not work on mobile Safari as of yet.

Something interesting happened today. Over at the infamous image board, 4chan, support for WebM was added. Now why is this important, you ask? Because, for the same file size (limited to 3 MB on ...