5 Open Source HTML5 Video Players for Web Developers

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MediaFront

The mediafront platform is an open source (GPLv3) front end media solution for the web. This platform offers two industry changing – open source media players that can be used free of charge on any website! Including the Open Standard Media (OSM) Player ( as shown ), which is an open source (GPLv3) all-in-one HTML5 media player for the web!

JME
jme is an HTML5 audio / video development kit with Flash and VLC Fallback, which focuses on flexibility, intuitive DOM-API and semantic code.

FlareVideo
Flare is an open source HTML 5 video player. It is easy CSS/HTML/JS customization and theming. Completely open source and free for commercial use.

Projekktor
Projekktor is a JS wrapper for the new HTML5 video and audio elements. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides useful non standard features.

Video JS
Video JS is a javascript-based video player that uses the HTML5 video functionality built into advanced browsers. In general, the benefit of using an HTML5 player is a consistent look between browsers.