FitVids.js vs mediaelement

FitVids.js

A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. (by davatron5000)

HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers. (by mediaelement)

Video/Audio html5-audio html5-video Hls Video Streaming Html5 Flash Dash Mp4 Mp3 html5-video-player

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FitVids.js		mediaelement
	Project
1	Mentions	1
4,776	Stars	8,139
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	6.4
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
HTML	Language	JavaScript
-	License	MIT License

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FitVids.js

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Full-width, Drupal core Remote Video with YouTube parameters
1 project | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

{ "type": "package", "package": { "name": "davatron5000/fitvids", "version": "1.2.0", "type": "drupal-library", "source": { "url": "https://github.com/davatron5000/FitVids.js.git", "type": "git", "reference": "v1.2.0" }, "require": { "composer/installers": "^2.0" }, "extra": { "installer-name": "fitvids" } } }

mediaelement

Posts with mentions or reviews of mediaelement. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Last year I made a Seinfeld trivia game! It took me hundreds of hours to write and program. 300+ questions, no ads (taken down recently), completely free to play. Just trying to spread the Seinfeld joy! Yadda yadda yadda.
1 project | /r/eFreebies | 9 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FitVids.js and mediaelement you can also consider the following projects:

video-react - A web video player built for the HTML5 world using React library.

video.js - Video.js - open source HTML5 video player

prettyembed.js - Prettier embeds for your YouTubes - with nice options like high-res preview images, advanced customization of embed options, and optional FitVids support.

Plyr - A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player

jPlayer Jukebox - jPlayer Jukebox is add-on to jPlayer that allows to play media files on the page by scanning all links and adding them to a playlist.

AmplitudeJS - AmplitudeJS: Open Source HTML5 Web Audio Library. Design your web audio player, the way you want. No dependencies required.

clappr - :clapper: An extensible media player for the web.

Ion.Sound - JavaScript plugin for playing sounds and music in browsers

react-player - A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion