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

Apps similar to Video.js include JWX Web Player. It's paid, but FastStream and Dailymotion Video Solution are free. Other options are FV Player, Flowplayer, MediaElement.js and Able Player. There's no shortage of CDNs like Video.js, with more than 25 alternatives for self-hosting, the web, Windows, Linux and Android.

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


The Kaltura Player leads the industry in flexibility, ease of customization, plug-in offerings and loading speed.

Moyea Web Player is one of the best Flash video player creating programs that offers an easy solution to create and customize a perfect Web FLV Player for playback on various websites, blogs and forums.




Allows you to customize and rebrand your YouTube videos on your site. Unlimited skinning options and colors through our config tool. Use Empora to brand your embedded YouTube videos and make it look amazing. No ads before, after or on your videos.




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.




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...

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...
