Custom HTML5 Video Player – great tutorial with source files from Dev.Opera on how to create Easily Customizable HTML5 video player, including packaging it as a simple jQuery plugin, choosing control types and outputting custom CSS for your own situation.

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Created jQuery plugin allows you to easily apply custom theme (child theme) as desired and call it using:

$('#video1').gVideo({
  childtheme:'MyChildTheme'
});

From Dev.Opera …

… Google recently releasing the VP8 codec, and the WebM project coming into existence. Opera, Firefox, Chrome and IE9 all have support in final builds, developer builds, or at least support announced for this format, and Flash will be able to play VP8.

This means that we will soon be able to create a single version of the video that will play in the <video> element in most browsers, and the Flash Player in those that don’t support WebM natively.