[IPython-User] getting webm to run in ipynb

[Dennis Daniels]

I'm using the notebook as my log book as I figure out how to use notebook.
I'm trying to get webm files to play directly in the browser. Five
different approaches. None worked.

Please advise re: webm playback in notebooks. Thank you.

 Testing webm playback in ipynb.


Webm should run natively in Chrome... but no joy so far.

 In [20]:

 from IPython.core.display import HTML

video = open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm, "rb").read()

video_encoded = video.encode("base64")

video_tag = '<video controls alt="test"
src="data:video/x-m4v;base64,{0}">'.format(video_encoded)

HTML(data=video_tag)

    File "<ipython-input-20-54bdec7eda2e>", line 2    video =
open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm, "rb").read()

^SyntaxError: invalid syntax




remove 'rb' see if that changes any thing...

 In [27]:

 from IPython.core.display import HTML

video = open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm").read()

video_encoded = video.encode("base64")

video_tag = '<video controls alt="test"
src="data:video/x-m4v;base64,{0}">'.format(video_encoded)

HTML(data=video_tag)

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------UnicodeDecodeError
                       Traceback (most recent call
last)<ipython-input-27-95a59987a12d> in <module>()      1 from
IPython.core.display import HTML----> 2 video =
open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm").read()
3 video_encoded = video.encode("base64")      4 video_tag = '<video
controls alt="test"
src="data:video/x-m4v;base64,{0}">'.format(video_encoded)      5
HTML(data=video_tag)
/usr/lib/python3.2/codecs.py in decode(self, input, final)    298
   # decode input (taking the buffer into account)    299         data
= self.buffer + input--> 300         (result, consumed) =
self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)    301         # keep
undecoded input until the next call    302         self.buffer =
data[consumed:]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position
13: invalid start byte



Try again by changing base64 to base32 and setting video/webm

 In [29]:

 from IPython.core.display import HTML

video = open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm").read()

video_encoded = video.encode("base32")

video_tag = '<video controls alt="test"
src="data:video/webm;base32,{0}">'.format(video_encoded)

HTML(data=video_tag)

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------UnicodeDecodeError
                       Traceback (most recent call
last)<ipython-input-29-d05ae16c77cd> in <module>()      1 from
IPython.core.display import HTML----> 2 video =
open("/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm").read()
3 video_encoded = video.encode("base32")      4 video_tag = '<video
controls alt="test"
src="data:video/webm;base32,{0}">'.format(video_encoded)      5
HTML(data=video_tag)
/usr/lib/python3.2/codecs.py in decode(self, input, final)    298
   # decode input (taking the buffer into account)    299         data
= self.buffer + input--> 300         (result, consumed) =
self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)    301         # keep
undecoded input until the next call    302         self.buffer =
data[consumed:]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position
13: invalid start byte



How about as just a raw html with video controls?

 In [30]:

 <video controls src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" />

    File "<ipython-input-30-a6fa9b78cf3c>", line 1    <video controls
src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" />
^SyntaxError: invalid syntax




How about as video source?

 In [31]:

<video src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" />


    File "<ipython-input-31-cbbfa959575d>", line 1    <video
src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" />
^SyntaxError: invalid syntax




src webm  <source src="muirbeach.webm"type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' >

 In [34]:

 <source src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" \

type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' >

    File "<ipython-input-34-7a4abb88679d>", line 1    <source
src="/home/dennis/Videos/Webcam/2012-11-25-173506.webm" \
^SyntaxError: invalid syntax


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