What Video Player Format is Best?
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What video player and video format is recommended for universal playback on all devices?
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Try Vimeo for Business http://vimeo.com/business
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The new flow player is quite impressive. It's feature rich and supports all browsers. It even had a flash fallback for really old browsers.
As far as format goes, different browsers support different file types so your best bet is to encode the videos in several html5 formats and let the player decide which is best for your users.
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