By Ionut Colceriu Introduction The HTML5 <video> element is already supported by most modern browsers, and even IE has support announced for version 9.
There are many advantages of having video embedded natively in the browser (covered in the article Introduction to HTML5 video by Bruce Lawson), so many developers are trying to use it as soon as possible. There are a couple of barriers to this that remain, most notably the problem of which codecs are supported in each browser, with a disagreement between Opera/Firefox and IE/Safari. Flash Video Player for the Web. The Open Source, Embeddable FLV Player.