Watching the GUADEC WebM live streams with Epiphany

Although it is being recommended to use Opera or the latest Firefox 4 beta to watch the GUADEC live video streams, there is another option: Epiphany. Here you can see a screenshot of what is being shown right now in one of the conference rooms, using GNOME 2.28 in Fedora 12:

The support for the HTML5 video tag in WebKitGTK+ was implemented by Philippe Normand as part of his work at Igalia during the last months. The video is reproduced using gstreamer as backend, so if you have the proper support for WebM installed in gstreamer, you can follow GUADEC using Epiphany.

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