O hai.

We’ll help you choosing the best HTML5 based video player for your next project.

Last update: 2015-06-01

Feedback on Twitter.

Let’s use the simple and easy-to-remember hashtag #videosws for feedback and news. See you there!

Credits.

VideoSWS was created and is maintained by Philip Bräunlich and Gerrit van Aaken. Demo video by MovieBrats.

New page, new players!

We are currently working on a new comparison chart. In the meantime, you might check six new players which might or might not suck:

OzPlayer // Able Player // MFP Accessible Video Player // THEOplayer // Plyr // amalia.js // viblast // playwire

Message from 2015-11-30

JS
Library		 Flash 1)
fallback		 Unified 2)
Look/API		 iOS
Support		 True
Fullscreen		 Keyboard
Control		 Subtitles Playlists CMS
Plugin		 Skinnable <audio> ready
JS
Library		 Flash 1)
fallback		 Unified 2)
Look/API		 iOS
Support		 True
Fullscreen		 Keyboard
Control		 Subtitles Playlists CMS
Plugin		 Skinnable <audio> ready
no yes no yes yes yes
jQ yes yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes medium
jQ yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Word Press yes
yes yes medium yes
jQ yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
jQ yes yes yes yes yes
jQ medium yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes WP,
Drupal		 yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes WP yes yes
jQ yes yes yes yes yes yes WP,
Drupal		 yes yes
Moo yes yes yes
jQ yes medium yes yes yes
jQ yes medium yes Drupal medium
yes yes yes yes
jQ yes yes yes yes yes comm.
plugin		 yes Word
Press		 yes yes
medium yes yes medium yes yes yes
medium yes medium yes
yes yes yes yes medium medium plugins yes yes
jQ yes medium yes yes yes yes yes WP
Joomla		 yes

Sucks less than the others.
Somehow incomplete, broken or ugly.
1) Grey-checked players must be provided with both MP4 and OGG/WebM videos.
2) Same look for native and fallback. Control both with the same API commands.
*) Last update is looong ago.