⚡ Video Players in Australia

Online video players allow websites to embed and display video content using HTML5 technology, supporting a range of video sources from local files to popular video platforms.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 15.5% of websites from Australia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top video players on websites in Australia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 38.5%, followed by YouTube with 37.5% and Video.js with 13.5%.

MediaElement.js 38.5%
YouTube 37.5%
Video.js 13.5%
Vimeo 12.6%
jPlayer 4.7%
Plyr 4%
flv.js 1.2%
Presto Player 0.7%
Flowplayer 0.6%
Lite YouTube 0.5%
HLS.js 0.3%
Dash.js 0.3%
ReactPlayer 0.04%
Vime 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top video players that are more popular in Australia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. MediaElement.js ^(-1)
8. Presto Player ^(-3)
13. ReactPlayer ^(-2)
14. Vime ^(-4)
15. 🎬 Clappr ^(-1)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 15 video players used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc). FreeOpen source	38.5%
2	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	37.5%
3	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source web video player that supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube and Vimeo. FreeOpen source	13.5%
4	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	12.6%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	4.7%
6	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.7%
9	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.6%
10	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.5%
11	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.3%
13	ReactPlayer A React component that can also be used as a standalone library to play a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Vimeo, and more. FreeOpen source	0.04%
14	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.03%
15	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 73,682 websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.