Is there a way to play videos without Flash Player?

Question

Is there a way to play video on a web page using javascript without Flash Player?

Answer 1

You can always embed Windows Media, Real Player or QuickTime directly on your page. There is also Silverlight if you just want to avoid Flash. If you don't care how it looks, you can create a low-quality player in Java. Some browsers have an HTML 5 tag, but there is no real standardization in the code yet.

Answer 2

HTML5 <video/>. . .

Answer 3

There is always an alternative to the poor person by simply loading individual baykion frames as .gif / jpg / png and displaying them in javascript sequentially. It would be terribly terrible to use bandwidth and memory, and, of course, no sound, but it (somewhat) mimics the video being played.

Of course, on Windows platforms you can use ActiveX and / or embed a media player, as well as play avi / wmv files without even touching the flash.