In case you have not been following the metavid in use part of the wiki, I thought I would mention some of the usage of the metavid dataset & site here:

Click.TV has let us know about a prototype they have created for using their flash application with a enhanced version of the data set that metavid makes available. The flash video interface is very responsive and we aspire to such fluidity with open source video and should be getting there soon

GovTrack.us is syndication friendly system for tracking government representatives. They now link into metavids clips on their people pages (on the left hand side).

And finally bloggers are using some clips: findlaw and boogiechimpdigital have used the embed clip function to put a metavid clip right into their blog postings.

This last Thursday and Friday just before linux.conf.au 2007, Open Source Media developers meet in Sydney, to hack on the future of Open Media. FOMS had a diversity of participants ranging from low level audio driver hackers & codec researchers to tool developers & online open media project maintainers all of whom worked together to identify next steps for open media.

The developer meeting established Community Goals for the near and long term. Goals include improving low level open media infrastructure, a push for native ogg theora playback in the base firefox install & getting embed oggplay support into mediaWiki (the software which runs Wikipedia).

Following the slashdot post poiting out the lack of open media support on the EU media site. I wrote them a short open letter pointing out metavid and calling for their support for open media.
I noticed your FAQ mentioning the following question:

On which platforms can I view the live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union?
The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux

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