How can I watch videos in their own window?

How can I watch videos in their own window? I'm sick and tired of watching youtube/vimeo/etc videos in my browser, and not being able to use the browser otherwise whilst doing so. What are my options for opening the embedded video in their own (chromeless) window, in a similar fashion to Mozilla Prism, or otherwise getting out of the way? Staying topmost would be handy too.
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bert [Entry]

I use DownloadHelper and MPlayer. DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension that detects any media (flash video, wmv, whatever) and you can simply click to download it. When download starts, I tell mplayer to play the file. You can use any standalone player, of course, but MPlayer shines here because it plays anything so you don't have to think which player to use for that type of file.