Best practice for launching a movie player from webpage

Hello;
Hope someone can help/direct me.

I am revamping an older website with a page that contains movie files that are stored in a MySQL database.

Here is a sample of the current code that points to them and a corresponding image thumbnail:

<table width=600 border=0 cellpadding=1><tr><td valign=‘top’ colspan=‘5’><font face=‘Arial’ size=‘3’ color=‘red’><b>Video Vault</b></font></td></tr><tr><td width=50></td>

<td><a href='http://www.mysite.com/movie/movie9.php?id=225'target='movie')><nobr><font face='Arial' size='1'><b>Siemens</b></font></nobr><br><img src='../keyframes/Siemens_Energy.jpg' width='64' height='46'></a>
</td>

There are a couple dozen movies on the webpage.

How can I have these launch when the person clicks on the image so it will launch the movie in their native movie application on their particular machine?

Is there a way to not have to “code in” a player into the website?

I am a novice and I appreciate any help/direction…

Thank you.