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You can save your ebaumsworld video and watch it with mplayer.

This is a little convoluted way and takes some time
but it works and you also get the downloaded video.

How to do it:
Go to www.ebaumsworld.com and click the video,
for example the front page video
Speaker Gets Pied
( direct link http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/356987/ )
You get that stupid Flash Player 8 is required text.
Below that is Rate: and Bookmark: line.
After the Bookmark text there is white on blue Facebook
icon (letter "f"). Tap and hold that icon and select menu command
Copy link location

Select your browser address bar and paste the link.
It should be
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=...-gets-pied.flv

Remove the facebook url part, now you have link
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/2008/04...-gets-pied.flv
which is the direct link to file.
Go to that address (click the green right arrow)
You get File download dialogue.
At least my N800 doesn't know how to open it but choose the
Save option and save it somewhere.

Now start X terminal, go to your download directory and
type mplayer yoursavedfilename

or

Start your file manager and select the downloaded file.
Doubletap it.
Once again my tablet doesn't know how to handle the file.
Click OK to search for an application.
I chose MPlayer
IT started GMPlauncher
Select your file, press Play
Hopefully it plays.
 

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