Live video on website

[Tuna]

Not sure if this is the best forum for this, but I figure the professionals are more likely to be hanging out here than in the Computers forum.

What is the current 'best practise' for embedding video on a web page? I have a project that would ideally feature seamless video (i.e. no borders or frames, no controls) within a web page (text and other layout sitting next to a video). It should be responsive if possible. The hard requirement is to be able to switch between different videos interactively (think the original Subservient Chicken campaign).

So - am I stuck with Flash? What formats of video? Any online resources?

And as an aside - how do sites do the 'full page splash' videos?

[uber]

Lots of options for this depending on if you want to host the video yourself or via a 3rd party. If you can code and want 100% control look at https://vimeo.com/ and the basic API allows you to set up just about anything you like but if you need something out the box look at something like http://codecanyon.net/item/vimuse-html5-media-play...

[Tuna]

Perfect, looks like Vimeo will do the job. Didn't think of it, having written YouTube off as too controlling.

[Frimley111R]

Agree, with always use/recommend Vimeo.

[trowelhead]

I see a lot of people using: http://www.jwplayer.com/

Also, it is possible to embed youtube to your specs (seamless, borderless and responsive)

For example:
http://css-tricks.com/NetMag/FluidWidthVideo/Artic...