Many thanks to all : Mikeash, Richard, Rolf, Graeme, Dennis, Trevor,Stephen, Dave, Peter, Troy, Rob, for your appreciations
=> Mike, sorry, I believe you were alone to meet this problem with blue screen, perhaps some JAVA uncompatibility.
I'm currently using the JW player :
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
which I find the easiest and most efficient for embedding videos in html pages.
Perhaps you could download this classical xvid, filesize is 12 MB and bitrate is twice H264 AVC
http://thetys.dyndns.org/neb/jwplayer/Map_xvid.avi
=> Dave, no problem about Vimeo link , it is the work of a team.