So I'm quite familiar with the <embed> tags and all of that, but I'm working on a website and having some trouble. I want to ideally include a bunch of videos all on the same page and let the viewers scroll down and just click on the one(s) they want to watch.

With quicktime's standard player it has the image before you click play the first frame, which is always black - makes the site look pretty poor. Secondly, quicktime is having some horrible bug with Vista where the controls to the player are entirely black. So, does anyone have a suggestion of a player or even some javascript or software to put on my site to get me around these issues?

Does it have to be Quicktime? Dealing with it on the web is a miserable experience for both ends of the deal.

Nope, just they are .mov files currently so that was my first jump. I don't care what it is, though ideally it would be something common enough that a lot of people have it, I even looked at just putting them on youtube but it puts the stupid bug in the bottom right.

I'd encode it as FLV and use one of the free players. For example: http://flowplayer.org/ or JW FLV (you've seen this one a millions times probably) http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

Make sure to use SWFObject.js to embed the flash player, for best compatibility.

There is a program called Swish...one of their products is swish Video. Creates the .FLV file Sanchek referenced a cheap and good solution.

I have the entire Adobe suite, Flash has a converter included in it. Trying it all out now, thanks guys :)

Not precisely related, but this has solved all my "can't get that movie to play on my computer" problems.

http://www.cccp-project.net/