HTML: Kaltura, Video Player Skins for HTML5

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...After posting the last articles about the easiness of include a video on your site with the new <video> tag i was asked: "hey, but the look&feel is so elemental!!, it is not like the player in youtube or someother I have seen before. This tag is really cr...!!". Well, yeah, youtube video player "kick ass", but how much has it cost??. I am not going to say an amount but more than your first thought.

You must think at the video tag to the place where the movie is being playing!!, ..the rest can be achive with different layers, with javascripts frameworks, with style CSS.

Let's have Kaltura's HTML5 Media Library as an Example. The guys for Kaltura has done a video player that is going to work in any browser and also in the IPAD, so whether you're using flash, h264, ogg-theora, or WebM -- Kaltura's library will make sure it is played on all browsers with the same UI.

Here is the example of the different "skins" that you can do thanks to style CSS changes.

You can get your hands on it