As we all know Apple CEO Pens 6 Points Blazing Assault On Adobe Flash and about 2 weeks ago, Google announced YouTube Enhance Videos Embed Capability To Support Flash and HTML 5 Players. No matter where you sit in the HTML5 or Flash, Flash has always been the standard for showing video on the web for the most part, however, as more and more mobile or web enabled devices gain traction in the market there will be increased demand for web developers designing sites using video, to build their sites accordingly.

The <video> element in HTML5 is a long-awaited and probably one of the most talked about feature. We can easily embed videos into web pages without any plugins, using the <video> element. Here are 23+ useful HTML5 video players/libraries which allow you to easily embed video into web pages and ensure backwards compatibility.

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