I don't know of a default video player. There must be one, I've just never run across it. Will look and see if I find anything.
I filed a bug report against kaboodle. Works in a limited way in 3.5.13.2 and 3.5.10, but is broken in R14.
I write "limited way" because I tried an assortment of video file types. Seems kaboodle supports only older versions of avi and mpeg. Newer versions of those formats don't play. Despite the prevailing hatred for flash, flv nonetheless remains popular and kaboodle does not support flv.
Somebody familiar with video hopefully can improve kaboodle, perhaps grabbing code from kaffeine or kmplayer. We need a more robust default video player. kaboodle's interface is very simple and that is good for a default player, but kaboodle needs improved format support. Not everything under the sun, but some updates.
Darrell