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'''Web Video''' is the providing of [[Television]] or sometimes drawings or animation over the Internet, typically in a web browser. Almost all sites are supported by advertising, but as with other sites, a very tiny number operate on a subscription basis (usually because they offer porn, that being about the only thing you can get people to pay for.) Some only allow you to watch while on-line, others will let you download the video to watch later or when not connected to the Internet.

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'''Web Video''' is the providing of [[Television]] or sometimes drawings or animation over the [[Internet]], typically in a web browser. Almost all sites are supported by advertising, but as with other sites, a very tiny number operate on a subscription basis (usually because they offer porn, that being about the only thing you can get people to pay for.) Some only allow you to watch while on-line, others will let you download the video to watch later or when not connected to the Internet.

Providing video over the Web was an issue once plagued by a need for multiple proprietary plug-ins, some of which worked better than others, but the duty of playing video has now mostly passed to a single plug-in, Adobe's Flash Player, a method popularized by [[YouTube]]. The video "player" is actually a Flash file (whereas before it would be part of the plug-in), usually custom designed and coded by someone on the site's development team. It contains the DVD-like controls and also handles the way the video is sent to the browser. Unfortunately, this puts the burden of making a working player on the site developers, and some do not know how to do it correctly.