VideoJS VS Able Player

For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. There are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be. The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source... Source: about 1 year ago

Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links. Source: about 1 year ago

I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. By inspecting the webpage (videojs.com). Source: over 1 year ago

Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Able Player looks like a solid option for a site that's self-hosting the media, but it will take some setup. It's all very well explained on there, though. Source: 11 months ago

Hello, I'm trying to implement the able player inside my test repo but the js portion is not loading as evident by the page, I've forked the original repo and uploaded the page and enabled github pages and it's working fine which leads me to believe I need to be doing something inside my test repo which I'm not doing currently. Source: over 1 year ago

Able Player is a fully accessible cross-browser HTML5 media player. Source: over 2 years ago