The <video> tag in HTML5

A regular HTML tag

<video src="myMovie" id="vid" />

A standard API

var vid = document.getElementById("vid");
vid.play();
vid.pause();
vid.currentTime = 0;

Interaction with CSS

video {
 border-radius: 2em;
 translate(100px, -100px) skewY(30deg) scale(0.5,0.5);
 opacity: 0.5;
}