For one reason or another, a lot of designers use Video Players on their website. An online video player needs no more introductions for web developers or simple users. Online Video players offer you flexibility and creativity in building your own tv on your Web spaces the way you want. You can add an unlimited number of videos and arrange them how you wish by the album title, artist’s name or year; it’s totally up to you! Everything from a simple video system to an HDTV can be totally placed on your Website or Blog.
Nowadays, there are over hundred thousands of media related resources available on the web. Instead of spending time on researching for the ones you needed, we pick the some of the best website video/media player options freely available to use. Below, you’ll find a collection of Free Video Players For Your Website by which you can increase your productivity.
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Free Video Players For Your Website
Realizing the increasing demand of useful apps across the web, we regularly feature commercial and free software on instantShift, so decided it was time to bring a roundup of free website video related applications to your attention. Just keep in mind that this list isn’t a ranking list of web apps. So, let’s start with this compilation that every web developer, designer and freelancer should consider. You just need to follow few instruction and you’re all set for watching videos online. In this Post you can find your choice of free video player with all the necessary details.
Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers. Using Flowplayer, You can build your own looking player and place it on your site to stream your video from a global network.
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There is a detailed installation guide available on how to build your video player.
Video LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily embed video to website, web page or blog, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Video LightBox is FREE for non-commercial use. A license fee is required for use on a commercial website. Video LightBox Business Edition additionally provides an option to remove the VideoLightBox.com credit line as well as a feature to put your own watermark to videos.
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There is a detailed installation guide provided by Video LightBox team on their website.
The JW Player is handy and flexible flash video player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, H.264, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports various streaming and playlist formats (including RMTP, HTTP, live streaming and more), a wide range of flashvar settings and an extensive JavaScript API.
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This guide will tell you how to Install the JW Player for Flash v5. First, Download the installation ZIP from web, which contains everything you need to get started.
STEP 1: Upload Player Files to Website — Transfer the player.swf, yt.swf and swfobject.js file from the ZIP to your website. Make sure that you’ve also uploaded all the necessary videos, songs and/or images to your site.
STEP 2: Embed Player Code into HTML — Embed the player in your HTML page with the lines of code below. Note: If you place the files in different directories, make sure to set the references in this code accordingly.
<p id='preview'>The player will show in this paragraph</p> <script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','player','400','300','9'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=video.flv'); s1.write('preview'); </script>
Notice the flashvars parameter above can contain a list of variables for configuring the player to use different Plugins or Skins. To quickly set up FlashVars, use the setup wizard. Simply choose an example, select the variables you want to use and paste the code onto your page. It’s that easy.
There is a detailed installation guides available on how to setup video player on your site.
GDD FLVPlayer is a web-based freeware to play FLV/mp4 (MPEG-4 encoded video file for Flash) files. With GDD FLVPlayer, you can easily play your FLV/mp4 videos as it doesn’t require the complicated Flash authoring tool and Flash development tools.
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How to install:
A easy howto guide comes with every downloadable player ZIP file.
MC Media Player is a Flash-based media player for embedding video, audio and still images in web pages. It is free to use for both non-profit and commercial websites.
There are currently two versions of the player: MC Classic (previously known as the 720×360 Edition) and MC Altair (beta).
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There is a Setup tool available on MC Media Player’s site by which you can create your own player.
Video Player Pro is one more handy free flash video player that’s easy to configure and easy to add to your website. It is free for personal use.
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How to install:
There is a very detail video tutorial available online to understand the installation and setup process.
VISCOM Web Player is a free platform independent web video player for website, it is an easy and convenient way to add single or multiple video to any websites. including video share sites, online Training, Education and Distance Learning , your blog, Myspace, forum.
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SS4UPlayer is an Internet based flexible video player which supports both streaming and progressive download. Work on both Windows and Linux platform. It supports playback of formats like FLV, 264, MP4, MP3. It has a wide range of flashvar settings which can be set through JavaScript. The XML-based skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its colour, scrubber color and size, transperancy level, font type, font colour and font size.
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A detailed installation guide comes with every downloadable player ZIP file. Or you can directly download the Installation PDF guide.
Anarchy Media Player is for all those who want simplicity of use in publishing audiovisual content to the web, and what it does is it makes any mp3, Flash flv or Quicktime mov links playable directly on your webpage while optionally hiding the download link. Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
How to install:
For detailed installation please refer this LINK
SublimeVideo is an HTML5 video player that will allow you to easily embed videos in any page, blog or site using the latest modern web standards.
Browsers makers are still working on fully supporting the HTML5 video specification, so at the moment SublimeVideo is still in experimental state and only works on a limited number of browsers. But the long term goal is to make it work on all modern browsers.
SublimeVideo will be soon released for free (at least for non-commercial use).
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WP Media Player is a Silverlight based media player plugin for WordPress that can be used for playing one or more players within the same blog post or page. It is used for playing self-hosted video files as well as for videos hosted on external video servers.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software. A full options menu is available with post-level overrides for endless customization. Installation is quick and easy, and no additional setup/coding/php knowledge is required. This plugin is low footprint, creating no tables, and uninstalling cleanly. Version 5 provides full support for skinning the player, integration with Google Analytics, and the capability to display ads from LongTail Solutions.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
Anarchy Media Player 2.5 for WordPress will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web page. The WordPress versions also add buttons to the Rich Text Editor for embedding Flash swf and Director dcr movies as well as YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, DailyMotion, Revver, Metacafe, MySpace, Apple iTunes iMix, and GoEar players.
How to install:
For detailed installation please refer this LINK
This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more.
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For installation and other FAQ please refer this LINK
Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you.
Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.
The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.
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How to install:
For detailed installation please refer this LINK
The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically, if demanded. The linktext is also configurable individually. Furthermore a fixed prefix for the linktext can be determined. The videos can be integrated easily by using the built-in WYSIWYG editor. The plugin generates XHTML-valid code and works from WP 2.5.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
This plugin manages the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 5.1 and makes it easy for you to put music, videos or flash movies onto your WordPress posts and pages.
wordTube supports the streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files. With wordTube you can simply insert it into your blog with the tag [media id=”media id”] or as playlist .
You don’t need to change the WYSIWYG mode or special HTML knowledge to insert such a tag. You can show a simple media file (i.e. a flv Format) or a playlist of all your media files.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
Places online videos (YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, Youku, Dailymotion, etc..) into your post by using JW FLV Player.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
SeeTheFace’s plugin for WordPress enables you to upgrade your text blog to Video Blog instantaneously.
With the help of SiteClip users will be able to easily use Publisher’s video message recorder and filters. Moreover, the mechanism behind SiteClip makes it possible to integrate it with any kind of website, regardless of its type and complexity. SiteClip can be built-in to E-commerce, Educational/Informational and News, Community, Auction sites as well as Job Portals, in a snap.
How to install:
For detailed installation please refer this LINK
FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV) into your blog. For commercial use and implementation, you need to purchase a license for the player. If you want information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has also written an excellent article which you can find on his site.
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For detailed installation please refer this LINK
While compiling this tool list, it’s always a possibility that we missed some other free web video players. Feel free to share it with us.
Wow great stuff to find here. FLV player was my favorite.
I’ve used JW before and I like it but I hate that watermark they placed in the newer versions that stays a few seconds at the starting of every video.
I replaced JW Player with MC Media Player and I like this one more, you can customize the colors and the size as you want. Would be nice if they could add custom logo feature.
Thanks for sharing!
Nice list indeed! Can’t wait for the SublimeVideo player.
Thank you for sharing with us!
thanks bro :)
good players
Thank you so much for this great list of excellent players…
Great list. Thanks a lot.
hey, nice collections of free video, truly going to help us…
thanks for this great resource…
Thanks for this post. I would know a few of them – but this is a great list!
Since this is my first comment at dF I want to say that this a great resource of information, inspiration and tools :) Thanks you guys!
Nice list, but you put Anarchy Media Player on there twice.
Nice collection. This post is very useful for my. Thanks for sharing.
That’s quite a compilation. Good list.
Useful for webmasters planning to add video-players to their websites.
Cheers,
Divyang
really helping article. thanks for sharing
all these are great! Thank you.
Do you recommend any reading for encoding videos for web?
Well I liked Flow player the most :) it looks so good to be integrated in the site..
hehe. nice collection. its better to use wordpress as they have plugins for players. but ya good collection.
Great lists, this info comes in handy for me. A client is looking for something like this. thank you. :)
gr888 collection boss,thanks for sharing with us,,its an appreciable job
Taking HTML5 into account, the general disdain for Flash, and not to mention Apple no longer supporting Flash for iPod, iPhone, and iPad, I feel that Flash is on its way out.
These players are great, but in a few years, I’ll bet that many computers and other devices won’t support such Flash-based video players. What happens when someone uses a device that doesn’t support Flash?
Planning for the future, I wouldn’t even bother with these players.
thanks for the nice share,
I think MC Media Player is pretty and the easiest to use
Oh unbelievable!! Thanks for the nice collection….
thanks good collection
Thanks for sharing these free online video player for websites!
Great Collection!
Nice collection… Thanks for Sharing :-)
most of websites use JW player, and i like it!
Great article!! Many thanks. Will be using these in future projects
Another really excellent player is Projekktor. See Projekktor.com. It is completely skinnable and allows watermark overlay.
Great list of players here – thanks. Its nice to see so many options for embedding video/audio on a website – like the fact a there’s more than one skin too like – Pro Player!
Thank You for sharing. This is very helpful
good collection, but I like SS4U Player, coz it provides additional features like youtube integration, and installer which will help the user to make the player user friendly.. they also provide the player with a lot of skins.
thnk for sharing good collection greats..
These can be install by the wordpress?And how to intall it?
Sorry~but I want to know
Good Day.
Excellent list.
But which of these players are compatible with BOTH PC and Mac?
Thank you.
nyc toosl
Playwire’s Bolt Player is free to download also. http://www.playwire.com
Thanks so much for this downright blog; this is the kind of thing that keeps me on track through out these day. Being a avid blogger, I’m happy to see others taking initivative and contributing to the community.
Useful list, thank you for sharing that!
Nice Player list for Web Developers & Designers, nice Job….
You might wanna take a look at this video player also. I had used it several times on different projects. It works like a charm and it’s fully customizable.
http://www.flashxml.net/youtube-vimeo-player.html
I strongly recomend it to any professional dev/designer out there.
I like Video Player Pro, it is suitable for my personal blog.
wow…i can add video from youtube just simple code… :D
I use Flowplayer and its great!
wow, i have loohing for this long time
I’m crazy for improving my blog. Thanks for sharing.
Great to share this useful to me, beautiful
This is a really helpful and comprehensive list. It takes much time to find some thing nice on the web. Thanks for sharing this great sources.
Thanks for this blog spot. very nice. I already kept bookmark for this as well. Nice nice
Hi all,
I have avi & wmv files which is not suppoting by any of these players. can any one tell me the suitable player by which i can play my files without any video conversion?????????
Thanks in advance.
Puvi
Thanks for sharing this………..
Hi i want to play 3gp(H264,AMR-NB) file in my web page;
any suitable player that i can use as commercial;
Thanks
Hey, it’s a perfect list. Thanks so much!
Thanks for sharing these free online video player for websites!
Good post. I love this post. Nice job.
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JV Player is my favourite player. But maybe I will check Flow Player as well.
Always love to have different looing on ma site so thanx much . an much respect to ya
great list
i personally prefer the jwplayer
a player for all season i must say simple and easily configurable
i am a web developer and i was assigned the task of developing a section where logged in users could watch videos and audio uploaded on site, client also requested that the users should not be able to download the videos
it was tedious and complicated but once it was done it was very fulfilling so i decided to write about it http://goldprogramming.blogspot.com/2011/11/secure-streaming-of-media-on-your-site.html
I guess you could add DarkOnyx 2 on the list. It’s a unique Flash/HTML5 hybrid player. It’s also absolutely free (including commercial usage)
http://darkonyx.web-anatomy.com/en
thnk for sharing good collection greats..
Hi!
Does anyone know of a way that I can have a video player start automatically when a user goes to my website, as well as continue to play through as a user naviagates throughout the site?
I have a space for a video in my header and have a video thats is a promo feed of advertisements and upcoming events and want it to play through as a user goes to different pages, without the video refreshing and starting over.
any suggestions?
Thanks for your help!
After a long search I chose DarkOnyx player.
thanks for this nice collections
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Thank You! I chose JW player for my blog! :)
What about http://www.flashxpert.net/products/video-players/video-player-iii/ ?
This video player:
– plays any type of video file that Flash Player supports (FLV / H.264 encoded video including MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, F4V).
– Fully customizable: Tons of settings that can be changed from the xml file with which you can totally change the look and feel of your player
– 100 + XML customizable options
This is really good collection, thanks Bro :-P
Good web video player collection…
Is there any 24/7 Web player?
I guess you could add DarkOnyx 2 on the list. It’s a unique Flash/HTML5 hybrid player.
Hello everyone!
Thanks to the author for publishing this collection of players for web sites.
I got a problem with videos on my website. Problem is that I don’t want other users to be able to see the location of a video file and just grab it from there. Neither I want someone to be able just to view source code of a webpage and copy-paste video player code to their own site and it will play there just fine.
Which one of players presented in the list can “hide” video file location from visitor’s eye even if he is watching source code of a webpage?
Thanks in advance,
George
Does your blog have a contact page? I’m having trouble locating it but, I’d like
to shoot you an e-mail. I’ve got some ideas for your blog you might be interested in hearing. Either way, great blog and I look forward to seeing it improve over time.
Here you go… http://www.instantshift.com/contact/
Great Collection. I checked out Video Lightbox. Pretty cool! Do you know off hand if any of these players will work on php pages? I noticed Video Lightbox does not…
Great list you compiled! I bookmarked it, also saw this one too, I bookmarked because it offered some background I found useful: http://www.real.com/resources/mp4-players
It is so useful!!
I am using JW player. Now I will try this others 20 players. Thanks
This was very informative. You have a nice list compiled and good info. posted on each media player. I also found this to be an excellent resource for choosing a free media player and it had yet others posted/compared http://www.real.com/resources/best-media-players-for-windows
i like it very much
can u add a player that can play all video and audio formats
so that i embed the player with my videos
Well done ! thanks for the list…I will have many options for video player to use it on my blog :)
Thanks For This Information It is Very Useful for Me and Again Thank u
jw player is great to deliver or streaming video contents in website
Your collection is very nice..VISCOM Web Video Player is my favourite player…. Thanks for sharing this information…
Hi, Friends Very very very friendly and easy customize HTML5 webplayer in the web .its only for http://www.yendifplayer.com .pls see the website . i have using many websites .great work ,Thanks developers!!!!!!!!!!!! great job
Hi,
Recently i used Yendifplayer is really superb player. Easy to install & config. Bugs Free player.
Best HTML5 player. http://yendifplayer.com
Is There Any Other Player Supported for Youtube Video’s…. Kindly Please Share The Links….
jw flow and hide your logo for a fee. I use http://spruto.com and there all free, plus you can advertise your show.
Nice Collection,I have used mot of them, most of the players which do support maximum video file formats do work for many, I use SmartIO App to transfer video files to other android phone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartio&hl=en, the display or UI matters to the user friendly interface the maximum movies it will play.
Which one of those players would likely be the most compatible one if it comes to QR code scanners on cell phones?
Thanks For Your valuable posting, it was very informative. Am working inErp Software Company In India
Your title ’21 Free Video Players For Your Website and Blogs’ is misleading. They are monthly services and they cost. All you had to say was the trials are free and you would have stayed honest. What? Do you get a % for anyone who signs up on one of the services that you lie is free. You are dishonest and I would not trust anything from your website or anything you say or do business with you. This kind of uncaring, no integrity greed is what makes the internet keep from being what it could be. Not to mention the world. Bare truth is everything.
+ minimoovie.com – very good website: free videos in high quality every day.
I like “uppod” player !
This is supereb topic.It will be helpful for everyone Great….
Hey guys!
Take a look about allvideoshare.mrvinoth.com this is the best video sharing script.
It have 2 types Standard version, Pro version…. :)
I love the suggestions above! The more choices I have, the more I understand the player that I am looking for. They were really many in number. Only one of them is best for my blog.
Thanks for the blog . You know sometimes when we search for any video player there is list open with some good players and garbage it . next time we all know for which video player we need to install.