Video Podcasts

The experience of putting a small video on Habr of a short video from today's flash mob on Arbat became a perfect shock. The file was embedded in the page and began to load regardless of the user's wishes. That is ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE who went to the “New” or, of course, to the “Frispeach” AUTOMATICALLY received these 6 megabytes in the .mov format! Of course, as soon as I understood what was the matter, I immediately deleted the topic, but:
a) sediment remained
b) not me alone

As far as I understand, the habra video player is sharpened for wmv? The question is whether it will ever work with other formats and how, when uploading video podcasts, enable the “watch video in a new window” piping so that there is no such disgrace as automatic download for everyone?

Once again I apologize to all victims of this fatal error: (