In today's article, I will introduce libraries help create HTML5 Video for websites design and development.
Libraries For HTML5 Video In Web Pages
This is a new feature was introduced in HTML5 version. It help users to display videos on websites without using third-party plugins such as Adobe Flash. HTML5 video will allow users to download the video and embed it directly in the HTML page. It also runs on many popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE9+...
Some useful features of HTML video Tag:
- Allows add captions and subtitles to videos.
- Show videos on different device screens.
- Use Web Speech API to control HTML5 Video.
- The controls can be hidden in full screen mode.
- Easily embed videos in web pages with
<video>tags.
However, to be able to work with many older browsers or add new features for customizing videos in websites, we need to use libraries to solve these problems. Now let's go to find out with me!
Plyr
Plyr is a compact open source library help you easy access and edit videos for HTML5, Youtube or Vimeo and runs on most popular browsers today. You can edit style in plyr.css to design video player like choosing the main color, border size, color for video captions, font selection... It has a many useful features such as displaying on different device screens, setting methods through APIs, using keyboard shortcuts to control the video player, having versions for many other frameworks and languages such as React, Vue, Angular, WordPress, Neos...
HLS.js
HLS.js is a source code library built with Javascript that makes it possible for you to perform HTTP Live Streaming. HTTP Live Streaming is a technique for streaming media files based on the HTTP protocol and developed by Apple. You can simply understand it helps us to split a media file into several smaller files and the video player in browser will send requests to get those small files to avoid having to wait for the whole video to finish downloading. then it will be displayed in the browser. In addition, it also depends on the user's network bandwidth to choose a reasonable video quality (like 480, 720, 1080p). You can read more here. HTTP Live Streaming. HLS.js works directly with the HTML <video> tag without using any additional media players. In addition, it also has a number of utilities such as selecting streaming mode, automatically recovering when video is corrupted, playing video as mp3 ...
VideoJS
VideoJS is a video player built from the HTML5 Video platform that supports many different formats such as Youtube, Vimeo, streaming... It was developed in 2010, contributed to by hundreds of programmers and currently more than 450,000 websites are using this library. Some of the feature of VideoJS are that it is designed with high aesthetics, has many themes to choose from suitable for media players, can run on both computers and phones, provides more than 100 plugins to help you can adjust as well as add new features easily...
Fluid Player
Fluid Player is a HTML Video small library makes it easy to make custom player video for website. In addition, it also has a number of different functions such as displaying on many different device screens, having many options for video quality, defining thumbnail images before downloading videos, allowing displaying banners. report ads, support for Vue, React and WordPress...
MediaElementPlayer
MediaElementPlayer is an open source library that helps quickly and easily build video and audio players for website. It supports working with embedded media players such as Youtube, Vimeo, Twitch, DailyMotion, Facebook, and SoundCloud. In addition, MediaElementPlayer also provides some settings to customize the media player such as using keys to control, determining the position of the volume, the format of time displayed on the media player...
Accessible HTML5 Video Player
Accessible HTML5 Video Player is an open source library built with pure javascript, compact size that makes it easy to set up a video player for a variety of web projects. Some of the strong points of this library are support for video annotations, use of HTML5 form controls for volume and progress bar (in case javascript isn't enabled), support for front-end framework React.
Indigo-player
Indigo-player is an open source library built with Javascript that create modern and highly customizable media players. With the system divided into small modules, you can remove features that you not need. It can play with media such as mp4, Dash, HLS... and supports most popular browsers today. It also has detailed setup and usage instructions that you can easily apply to your website.
jPlayer
jPlayer is a free and open source library built with Jquery that allows you to build video and audio players quickly for website. It provides many features to help you easily extend and style the media player through HTML, CSS. In addition, jPlayer can also run on many different platforms and browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, IE6+, iOS, Android...
Xigua Video Player(HTML5)
Xigua Video Player (HTML5) is a library for playing video and audio for web pages. It is designed into separate UIs that give you the flexibility to build a media player easily. In addition, it also provides some other useful features such as Picture-in-Picture: help display video in small window so that users can read information and watch video at the same time on web page, mode Full screen, fast running video capture function, reformatting media player language, custom design via style attribute... It has a generate tool that you can customize yourself media player intuitively by adding or subtracting the information, attributes and functions you want, Then this tool will automatically output the code and display the corresponding video player with that information .
Clappr
Clappr is an extensive media player for the web. It is a compilation of two different projects, @clappr/core and @clappr/plugins. Where @clappr/core is where basic functionality like classes, plugin architecture, event handling... and @clappr/plugins are a collection of plugins that you can integrate into your media player such as display 360-degree video, Picture-in-Picture, control buttons... And it can be displayed on many different device screens as well as running on most popular browsers today. You can refer to how to set up and use this library in the Documentation section of the demo page.
Shaka Player
Shaka Player is an open source library built with Javascript that makes it easy to set up a media player for your website. One strength of this library is that it can run adaptive media formats (such as DASH and HLS) in the browser without using additional libraries. It also supports offline storage and video playback via IndexedDB in the browser (although some browsers do not support it). With development since 2014 and upgraded through many stages with many useful features, I think this is a library you should use to create a media player for your website.
HTML Video Libraries For ReactJS
Video-React
ReactPlayer
React Media Player
react-html5video
React Video
HTML Video Libraries For VueJS
Vue-Video-Player
vue-core-video-player
vue-video-module
Vue-DPlayer
vue-youtube-ssr-app
HTML Video Libraries For Angular
mat-video
Videogular
ngx-embed-video
Other HTML Video Libraries
JW Player's
Flowplayer
Vplayed
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