video.js VS mediaelement

Compare video.js vs mediaelement and see what are their differences.

mediaelement

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)
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video.js mediaelement
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37,169 8,139
0.7% 0.3%
8.7 6.4
4 days ago 3 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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video.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of video.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
  • Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. there are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be.

    The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static page using https://videojs.com/ to embed a player and load the video and subtitles in a browser window.

    Here it is in gist form if anyone has a similar issue: https://gist.github.com/HartS/9bb2721fa73b6798efcdbf5c463e87...

    This was hacked together as quickly as possible for my own needs, so definitely not intended to be an example of clean code. You need to run the python server separately to serve the SRT because video-js can't load it from a file URL IIRC

  • Wanted - IPTV Front-end
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jun 2023
    Thank you! This is the kind of creative solution I was looking for. Your comment helped me find video.js which has first-party support for opening M3U8 streams.
  • Floatplane is a disappointment
    1 project | /r/LinusTechTips | 30 Mar 2023
    videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source...
  • Best practice for multiple autoplay videos
    1 project | /r/web_design | 23 Mar 2023
    Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links.
  • trying do download a blob video
    1 project | /r/javahelp | 4 Jan 2023
    I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. by inspecting the webpage (videojs.com).
  • Bibliotecas NodeJS incríveis que você não tem ideia que existem
    16 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2022
    🔀 Repositório no GitHub
  • Building a React live streaming app with 100ms
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2022
    Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally.
  • Videos in HTML
    1 project | /r/django | 28 Sep 2022
    Maybe videojs?
  • Creating and customizing an HTML5 video player with CSS
    1 project | dev.to | 4 Sep 2022
    You can find real-life examples of customized HTML5 video players on YouTube, the Cloudinary Video Player, JWPlayer, and Video JS. Each of these websites or frameworks utilizes the power of CSS to customize their videos or allow their users to do the same.
  • Did the IJF Live player switch from YouTube to their own?
    1 project | /r/judo | 6 Jun 2022
    It looks like the IJF has switched to using the Video.js player on their portal. I'm not sure what to think of that. This could be the IJF taking more control over their IP which is ultimately a good thing. If you want to watch specific matches and see when certain actions happen then you must use their portal.

mediaelement

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Plyr - A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player

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

hls.js - HLS.js is a JavaScript library that plays HLS in browsers with support for MSE.

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

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.

awesome-blazor - Resources for Blazor, a .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly.

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

flowplayer - The HTML5 video player for the web