Plyr Alternatives

Plyr is described as 'A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5 media player' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Plyr for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted solutions, Online / Web-based, jQuery, JavaScript and Windows. The best alternative is VideoJS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Plyr are Able Player, FV Player, JW Player and MediaElement.js.

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Plyr

Free • Open Source

Online
Self-Hosted
JavaScript

A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5 media player.

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VideoJS
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Free • Open Source
Online
Self-Hosted
34 alternatives to VideoJS
VideoJS is an HTML5 Video Player, built with Javascript and CSS, with a fallback to a Flash video player for when the browser doesn't support HTML5 video.
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1. LightweightVideoJS consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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Able Player
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Free • Open Source
Self-Hosted
Wordpress
GitHub
28 alternatives to Able Player
Able Player is a fully accessible cross-browser media player. It uses the HTML5 <audio> or <video> element for browsers that support them, and (optionally) the JW Player as a fallback for those that don’t.
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FV Player
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
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Linux
Online
Windows Mobile
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Chrome OS
Android Tablet
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Self-Hosted
Wordpress
28 alternatives to FV Player
WordPress's most reliable, easy to use and feature-rich video player. Features responsive design, playlists, ads, stats, Vimeo, YouTube, S3, Cloudfront and CDN support. AB loop, speed controls.
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1. LightweightFV Player consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Consistent UI
Customizable
Support for subtitles
Sync with Amazon Drive
Playlists management
Support for Amazon S3
Transcript Search
Automatic Looping
JW Player
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Online
35 alternatives to JW Player
The JW Player is an embeddable media player for web sites, supporting many commonly-used audio and video formats.

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MediaElement.js
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Free • Open Source
Self-Hosted
TYPO3
Drupal
Joomla
BlogEngine.NET
Plone
Wordpress
jQuery
RubyGems
30 alternatives to MediaElement.js
HTML5 video player with Flash and Silverlight fallbacks making it compatible with any browser.
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1. LightweightMediaElement.js consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
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Flowplayer
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Paid • Proprietary
Online
33 alternatives to Flowplayer
Flowplayer is an online video platform for broadcasters, publishers, and media houses. It gives you top ranking ad fill rates and the best-of-breed live streaming.
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Play web video
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Html5media
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Free • Open Source
Online
28 alternatives to Html5media
html5media is a JavaScript library that enables every browser to play the media defined inside the HTML5 media tags.

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Accessible HTML5 Video Player
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Free • Open Source
Online
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JavaScript
30 alternatives to Accessible HTML5 Video Player
A lightweight HTML5 video player which includes support for captions and screen reader accessibility. For details, read the blog post Introducing an Accessible HTML5 Video Player on the PayPal Engineering blog.
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afterglow
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Free • Open Source
Online
Self-Hosted
JavaScript
28 alternatives to afterglow
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...
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Discontinued
Webste doesn't exist anymore
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Videogular
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
JavaScript
AngularJS
28 alternatives to Videogular
Videogular is an HTML5 video player for AngularJS. Videogular is a wrapper over the HTML5 video tag, so you just could add whatever you want. This provides a very powerful, but simple to use solution, for everybody.
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