⚡ Video Players in Saudi Arabia

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.

Saudi Arabia is a Western Asian country with a population of over 37 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 10.1% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube with an impressive share of 41.5%, followed by MediaElement.js with 40.5% and Video.js with 10.4%.

YouTube 41.5%
MediaElement.js 40.5%
Video.js 10.4%
Plyr 8.4%
jPlayer 3.8%
Vimeo 3.6%
Presto Player 1.3%
Dash.js 1%
HLS.js 0.8%
Lite YouTube 0.8%
flv.js 0.8%
Flowplayer 0.3%
ReactPlayer 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Plyr ^(-2)
7. Presto Player ^(-4)
8. Dash.js ^(-4)
9. HLS.js ^(-1)
13. ReactPlayer ^(-2)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 13 video players used on sites from Saudi Arabia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	41.5%
2	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	40.5%
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	10.4%
4	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	8.4%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	3.8%
6	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	3.6%
7	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	1.3%
8	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	1%
9	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.8%
10	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.8%
11	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	0.8%
12	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.3%
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	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries
- Iraq
- Oman
- Qatar

Data is based on the analysis of 3,894 websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.