Once at work, I had the task of doing research the marketexisting web players that could be taken for our new fashion project. In the process, this comparison was formed.
I thought that it might be useful to someone else and decided to arrange it in the form of an article on Habr.
Open source web players
Video.js
The most popular ( ~ 30k downloads per day ) and the oldest ( ~ 10 years repository) web player.
It is supported by 10 maintainers and the Brightcove online video platform , which is the main sponsor of the project. Their own proprietary player is based on video.js .
Fast release cycles. Developers roll out a new version every week.
Almost everything can, thanks to the rich ecosystem of plugins. You can write your plugin and add it to the directory . A few years ago we wrote our sharing plugin .
It has the largest weight ( 486 kB minified code ) among competitors.
jQuery in the world of web players.
Shaka Player
- (~15k ). Google, , .
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Kaltura Player (. ).
Plyr
-. (~8 ).
(~4 , , 2016).
(113 kB )
HTML, IE ( ).
vi.ai. VAST .
, (392 issues ), .
, .
2018 . 3 .
Flowplayer
. 2012 Flash, HTML5.
v7 Flowplayer.
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jPlayer
, jQuery.
5 (15 2014).
React.js.
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Kaltura HTML5 Video Player
Shaka Player Google.
JW Player
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Cloudinary
(, , ).
Cloudinary Video Player Studio.
video.js.
Wistia
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, CDN. .
-, : Plyr, Shaka Player Video.js.
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Shaka Player , Google, . , : legacy. , : . , . issues , IMA SDK ( Google, ), .
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