Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- jQuery

afterglow is described as 'A few years ago, there was a new video player around, called SublimeVideo. It was a breeze to integrate, reliable, free to use and worked out of the box. Sadly, times change. Out of the blue, SublimeVideo has been bought by Dailymotion, all services have been discontinued on' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to afterglow for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, jQuery, Wordpress and Windows apps. The best afterglow alternative is VideoJS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like afterglow are FV Player, JW Player, Able Player and Flowplayer.

jPlayer is the completely free and open source (MIT) media library written in JavaScript. A jQuery plugin, (and now a Zepto plugin,) jPlayer allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages.

The smallest HTML5 player, awesome in performance. Turbo charged monetization: VAST 3.0/VPAID/VMAP/Google IMA.




Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing.


OIPlayer is a jQuery plugin for HTML5 audio and video with fallback to Java and Flash. It 'attaches' itself to all video and/or audio tags it encounters. Besides the general configuration of the plugin itself, it uses for each individual tag the attributes the respective...

Open Standard Media (OSM) Player The Open Standard Media Player is an all-in-one media player for the web. It is an industry changing, open source (MIT) media player that is built to dynamically deliver any type of web media, including HTML5, YouTube, Vimeo, Limelight CDN...

AdPlayer.Pro offers outstream video ads solutions, primarily video ad player technology. The AdPlayer.Pro video player is compliant with major video ad standards, works across platforms and supports outstream & instream video ad formats.



AdPlayer.Pro is the most popular SaaS alternative to afterglow.
The rx-player is a Javascript library implementic a generic streaming video player using HTML5 Media Source and Encrypted Media extensions. It is entirely written in reactive-programming with ECMAScript 6.

Indigo Players is a highly extensible, modern, TypeScript/JS video player. It handles MPEG-Dash / HLS / MPEG-4 and is built on top of the HTML5 video element.

Amalia.js is an extensible HTML5 multimedia player that allows you to view any type of metadata along with your video or audio streams.


LeanBack Player is a Javascript based HTML5 Video and Audio Media Player UI that uses build-in HTML5 <video> and <audio> element functionality of standard browsers, platforms and devices. It's very easy to integrate, it's skinnable by using CSS, it's...
