🆚 MediaElement.js vs. ReactPlayer
- 📈 MediaElement.js is much more popular than ReactPlayer.
- 🌍 MediaElement.js is more popular in all countries.
MediaElement.js
ReactPlayerType
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.
ReactPlayer is a 
React media player component that enables playback of videos and audio from file URLs and multiple online platforms.
It supports YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Vimeo, HLS, DASH, and other media sources, automatically loads only the required player for each source, offers light mode that displays a thumbnail until playback begins, and supports picture-in-picture, custom controls, and extensible custom players.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Video.js
jPlayer
Plyr🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.