⚡ Video Players in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 3.4% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Video.js with an impressive share of 49.3%, followed by flv.js with 27.2% and YouTube with 23%.

Video.js 49.3%
flv.js 27.2%
YouTube 23%
MediaElement.js 11.6%
Plyr 4.6%
HLS.js 3.7%
Lite YouTube 2.4%
Bilibili 2.2%
jPlayer 2.2%
Flowplayer 1.4%
Vimeo 0.6%
Dash.js 0.4%
Presto Player 0.3%
🎬 Clappr 0.2%
Vidstack 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Video.js ^(-2)
2. flv.js ^(-5)
5. Plyr ^(-1)
6. HLS.js ^(-3)
7. Lite YouTube ^(-3)
8. Bilibili ^(-11)
14. 🎬 Clappr ^(-2)
15. Vidstack ^(-5)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 16 video players used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	49.3%
2	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	27.2%
3	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	23%
4	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	11.6%
5	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4.6%
6	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	3.7%
7	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	2.4%
8	Bilibili Shanghai, China The embedded Bilibili video player. Free	2.2%
9	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	2.2%
10	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	1.4%
11	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	0.6%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.4%
13	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.3%
14	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	Vidstack Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A framework and collection of UI components for building and managing custom media players on the web. FreeOpen source	0.04%
16	VK Video Moscow, Russia The embedded VK Video player. Free	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries
- Japan
- Korea
- Taiwan

🗃️ 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.