I am looking for a way in which to play a video in Drupal 7
First of all, I'll say what I do NOT want!
I DON'T want to view Youtube, Vimeo or any other video from any video hosting website!
I DON'T want to have to subscribe (either for payment or for free) to a third party file hosting or media translation provider!
I DON'T want to just have a hyperlink on my Drupal web page which links to an application which plays the video!
What I do want is something which will enable me to have a video file stored on my server (say at sites/default/files/videos)
and then, either by defining a new field in a content type, or by using an editor such as Wysiwyg or CK-Editor to include the video file on my node, and then having saved it to display my Drupal webpage with a video displayed in it in the same way as in http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/7860-drupal-cookbook-for-new-drupallers
and many other sites including youtube!
A friend, who chose to use Joomla instead of Drupal, tol me that all he needs to do is to enter a short statement in curly braces into his content editor, and there he has a video playing with Flowplayer.