⚡ Video Players in Ireland

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.

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 15.3% of websites from Ireland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 39.4%, followed by YouTube with 33.3% and Video.js with 17.3%.

MediaElement.js 39.4%
YouTube 33.3%
Video.js 17.3%
Vimeo 14.1%
jPlayer 4.6%
Plyr 3.7%
flv.js 0.9%
Flowplayer 0.7%
Lite YouTube 0.7%
Presto Player 0.5%
HLS.js 0.2%
Vime 0.2%
Dash.js 0.05%
Dailymotion 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. MediaElement.js ^(-1)
10. Presto Player ^(-1)
12. Vime ^(-6)
14. Dailymotion ^(-3)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 15 video players used on sites from Ireland, 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	39.4%
2	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	33.3%
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	17.3%
4	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	14.1%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	4.6%
6	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	3.7%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	0.9%
8	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.7%
9	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. 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	0.5%
11	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.05%
14	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded Dailymotion video player. Free	0.05%
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	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 12,860 websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.