⚡ Video Players in Portugal

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.

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 42.5%, followed by YouTube with 36.8% and Video.js with 11.6%.

MediaElement.js 42.5%
YouTube 36.8%
Video.js 11.6%
Vimeo 6.2%
jPlayer 5.6%
Plyr 5%
flv.js 1.3%
Flowplayer 1.1%
Presto Player 0.6%
Lite YouTube 0.4%
HLS.js 0.4%
Dash.js 0.1%
ReactPlayer 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. MediaElement.js ^(-1)
9. Presto Player ^(-2)
13. ReactPlayer ^(-2)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 13 video players used on sites from Portugal, 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	42.5%
2	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	36.8%
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	11.6%
4	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	6.2%
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	5%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.3%
8	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	1.1%
9	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.6%
10	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.4%
11	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.4%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.1%
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	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 14,630 websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.