Video & audio player themes for every web player & framework
Video and audio player themes that work for any web player (Video.js, Youtube embeds, and more), and with every web app framework (HTML, React, and more). Open source and built with Media Chrome so they’re fully customizable using just HTML and CSS.
Hey Product Hunters! 👋
First, big thanks to this great community and @mwseibel for hunting this!
Back in 2010 I built Video.js, and at the time I put a lot of thought into how other developers would customize the player controls. I was excited to use web technologies (instead of Flash) to build a player and I *knew* other web devs would be too.
Fast forward 14 years — Video.js has been used on millions of websites including Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Dropbox, Linkedin and even in United Airlines headrests. In 99.99% of those cases the default Video.js controls were used with little to no customization. So…huge adoption success, utter failure in sparking creativity. In retrospect, asking people to learn a new UI framework just to style their player was too much.
Media Chrome and Player.style are my answer to that friction.
* Media Chrome - A suite of Web Components and React Components that let you easily build a media player UI from scratch, using components you’re already familiar with.
* Player.style - Themes built with Media Chrome, showing the cross-player and cross-framework flexibility of the Media Chrome components
Media Chrome is already used on sites like TED.com, Syntax.fm and anywhere the Mux Player is used. We’ve spent the last few months building some really great themes for Player.style, and we don’t plan on stopping.
Thank you to Matt, Wes, Staci, Dar, Rob, Christian, Adam and Dave for helping me finally get Player.style off the ground. And thanks to our company, Mux, for supporting the effort!
It’s free and open source, so don’t hesitate to jump in if you’re interested in the project.
