⚡ Video Players in India

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.

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 13.5% of websites from India.

Statistics based on 78K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube, which dominates the market with a substantial 61.3% share.
It is followed by MediaElement.js with 24.8% and Video.js with 8.5%.

YouTube 61.3%
MediaElement.js 24.8%
Video.js 8.5%
Plyr 4.6%
jPlayer 3.5%
Vimeo 2.5%
flv.js 1.1%
Lite YouTube 0.8%
Presto Player 0.8%
HLS.js 0.7%
Flowplayer 0.3%
Dash.js 0.06%
Dailymotion 0.02%
🎬 Clappr 0.009%
Vime 0.009%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Plyr ^(-1)
5. jPlayer ^(-1)
8. Lite YouTube ^(-1)
9. Presto Player ^(-2)
12. Dash.js ^(-2)
13. Dailymotion ^(-4)
14. 🎬 Clappr ^(-1)
15. Vime ^(-3)

✨ Best Video Players

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

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The YouTube Player widget allows websites to embed and play YouTube videos and playlists within web pages. Free	61.3%
2	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States 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. FreeOpen source	24.8%
3	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source HTML5 video player library that provides a customizable video player for embedding and controlling video playback in web applications. FreeOpen source	8.5%
4	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4.6%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	3.5%
6	Vimeo New York, United States Vimeo's embedded video player for playing videos on external websites. Free	2.5%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.1%
8	Lite YouTube San Francisco, California, United States A lightweight YouTube embed designed to improve page loading performance. FreeOpen source	0.8%
9	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.8%
10	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.7%
11	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player and delivery platform for on-demand, live, and simulated live streaming. FreeOpen source$$$	0.3%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.06%
13	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded video player for publishing Dailymotion videos and playlists on websites. Free	0.02%
14	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.009%
15	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework-agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.009%
16	ReactPlayer San Francisco, California, United States A React media player component that enables playback of videos and audio from file URLs and multiple online platforms. FreeOpen source	0.009%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

🗃️ 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 78,590 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.