I'm working on an HTML5/JS video project, so was pretty excited when Vimeo / YT / etc started up their HTML5 betas & promised a way to embed these videos rather than the flash versions. Turns out that their solution wasn't to give us what I think of when I think of <video>, i.e. links with .mp4, .ogg, or even .H24 extensions... but just plain id's & <frame>.

I'm new at designing & programing, but it sounds like <frame> has been around for a long time, it's outdated, & it keeps the control with the video hosting companies. It is *not* a way that promotes people being (particularly) creative with media.

So I've turned to Amazon simple storage for commercial work, and am looking for an open source video storing/sharing site to use when building copyright free multimedia works.