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There's a great article called How Firefox Is Pushing Open Video Onto the Web by Micheal Calore over at WebMonkey, dealing with the HTML 5 <video> tag and Firefox's native Ogg Theora support. The piece outlines the technical details of the <video> tag and includes an interview with Mozilla director of Firefox Mike Beltzner and Mozilla director of platform engineering Damon Sicore.

An excerpt from the interview:

Webmonkey: How do you see these factors -- the HTML 5 video tag, putting the Ogg codecs right into the browser, presentation techniques that mimic the plug-in player experience -- affecting video on the web? What's it going to change in six months? Or six years?

Beltzner: In six months, you're going to see more sites like DailyMotion doing things where they detect that the browser supports Ogg and the video tag, and in that case, they're going to give those users an Ogg-and-video-tag-experience.

I think you'll see content sites doing this because they'll have the ability to re-encode their entire video libraries without having to pay any licensing fees. The Ogg Theora encoders are completely license-free and patent-proof. They don't need to worry about which player you've got. They also don't need to worry about which hardware you've got. Ogg Theora will run on Windows, Mac and Linux, or any embedded device or mobile device built on the Linux platform.

Here's a beta example page from DailyMotion demonstrating use of the HTML 5 <video> tag. If you have Firefox 3.5 installed, or a reasonably new version of Webkit/Safari and the XiphQT component install, you should have in browser video playback - Ogg Theora and no Flash player needed.

YouTube's demonstration page here.