⚡ Video Players in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 12.2% of websites from France.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 42.4%, followed by YouTube with 37.5% and Video.js with 11.1%.

MediaElement.js 42.4%
YouTube 37.5%
Video.js 11.1%
Vimeo 6.4%
jPlayer 5.6%
Plyr 4.4%
flv.js 1.5%
Lite YouTube 0.8%
Flowplayer 0.7%
Presto Player 0.4%
Dailymotion 0.4%
HLS.js 0.4%
Dash.js 0.1%
PeerTube 0.04%
ReactPlayer 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. MediaElement.js ^(-1)
8. Lite YouTube ^(-1)
10. Presto Player ^(-1)
11. Dailymotion ^(-6)
14. PeerTube ^(-7)
16. Vime ^(-2)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 17 video players used on sites from France, 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	42.4%
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	11.1%
4	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	6.4%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	5.6%
6	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4.4%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.5%
8	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.8%
9	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.7%
10	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.4%
11	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded Dailymotion video player. Free	0.4%
12	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.4%
13	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.1%
14	PeerTube Lyon, France The embedded PeerTube video player. Free	0.04%
15	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%
16	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.01%
17	Onnetwork.tv A Polish video advertising platform that provides a multimedia player that allows publishers to flexibly manage video and audio content, as well as broadcast pre-roll and mid-roll ads.	0.007%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.