There’s no shortage of off-the-shelf (OTS) video players to deliver content online. Enter the term “video player” on the popular GitHub code repository site and you’ll see more than 1,000 results.

Learn from the best: at the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City, Steve Heffernan, creator of the widely used VideoJS player, explained how to build an HTML5 player from scratch.

"Our top priority in building an HTML5 video player has been to make sure you can watch the same streams you love in a noticeably smoother package." During last years TwitchCon, it was announced that ...

Yokto is a newly launched video platform which offers an embeddable player that intelligently switches between a Flash-based interface or HTML5, depending on the device being used to view the content.

In my own testing, the HTML5 player loads a bit faster than the Flash version. Thankfully, it doesn’t run into any annoying rebuffering issues as you jump around the video, a common problem with Vimeo ...

It represents the culmination of four years of work, and was enabled by several recent additions to the HTML5 video specification. MediaSource Extensions allowed YouTube to provide adaptive bitrate ...

With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia, it ...

Vimeo launched an HTML5-based video playback site at the beginning of the year, but it is now enabling users to embed its videos with a new Universal Player that can ...