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Video encoding for websites

I am a little new to embedding videos on a website. What is the best way to go about it? I just started reading up on it.

I read that I should use HTML5 and the browser's native player. -- Does anyone know of a javascript library that will use the browser's player and detect if the browser is not using HTML5 to downgrade to a flash player?

As far as encoding what is the best approach? I am planning on writing a little console app to use FFMPEG to convert the videos. But what encoding should I use? I heard H.264 is promising? But

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  • This is what you're looking for: http://videojs.com/

    Encoding wise, I think H.264 and WebM is a wise choice. That way you'll satisfy all modern browsers and mobile devices (incl. iOS and Android), and only fall back to Flash for older, pre-HTML5 browsers (and FF 3.6, which only supports Theora.)