🆚 MediaElement.js vs. Plyr
- 📈 MediaElement.js is much more popular than Plyr.
- 🌎 MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Plyr is more popular in Jersey.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MediaElement.js
PlyrType
Video player
Video player
About
MediaElement.js is a free, open-source HTML5 audio and video player that enables playback of MP4, WebM, and MP3 media files as well as streamed content in HLS and MPEG-DASH formats.
It provides a unified player interface with customizable controls and cross-browser compatibility, and also supports embedding external media sources including 
YouTube, 
Vimeo, 
Facebook, 
Twitch, and 
SoundCloud.
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas, United States
Sydney, Australia
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Video Players › Rank #2
Video Players › Rank #5
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #21
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #70
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MediaElement.js video player is 7 times more popular than Plyr.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Plyr is more popular in Jersey.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
France
Netherlands
Japan
Australia
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Pakistan in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MediaElement.js is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Plyr is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.