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Web video comes from two major sources: Those that provide their own content (such as those run by TV [[Network|Networks]]), and those that provide content uploaded by users. The latter almost all have good players, since unlike the TV networks they can't afford not to. The biggest of these is [[YouTube]], launched in 2005, and similar sites including Vimeo and Dailymotion have [[Follow the Leader|sprung up since]]. But they don't allow porn. For that, there various are pay and free sites dedicated to that purpose. But you get what you pay for.
 
An emerging technology is HTML 5's <video> tag, which allows video files to be played directly without the use of Flash Player or other third-party plugins. The browser itself handles caching, and the controls can be customized to some extent, the same way one customizes the look of the page itself. So farHowever, only certain browsers support this tag, and there is ano bitagreement ofas ato which format waris goingsupported onin notvarious unlikebrowsers the one that once raged between VHS and- Betamax[[w:HTML5 Firefox has pledged to onlyvideo#Browser support|as theof open-source2019, but rarely-used OGG Theorano format, whileis Apple'ssupported Safariin onlyall supportsbrowsers thewithout veryplugins]]. popular but technicallyThe proprietary h"H.264." Microsoft'sversion Internetof Explorerthe 9MP4 usesformat h.264comes also;closest althoughto Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8universal support neither. So it will be a while before Flash-based players go away entirely, as much as Steve Jobs (or Tim Cook) may wish otherwise.
 
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