Earlier this week, Google announced WebM which might become the de-facto web standard for online videos considering the huge positive response it received. In just a couple of days later, the Participatory Culture Foundation came up with a new version of Miro Video Converter with WebM (VP8 video codec) support.

Miro Video Converter is an open source awesomeness that supports all major video formats and has a very intuitive interface. You will be surprised to see how you easily you can convert any video into a format compatible with Android, iPad, iPhone, PSP and other devices.

Talking about the WebM format, it took about 2.5 minutes to convert a 10 second H.264 video @ 25FPS, 640 x 480 resolution and 1409kbps bitrate. That’s a bit average but the .webm file thus generated was around 30% smaller than the original H.264 video file. And that’s really great.

Miro Video Converter is available for Windows and Mac.

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