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.
What a way to bring a human “feel” to video consumption again! To a brighter, more personalized and awesome Video experience 📈
(P.S. I hope to see the Winamp retro player as the Internets default as an outcome of all the hard work!)
Oh gosh! I don't know if I'll ever personally have a use case for this, but I love it. I also have to say the website is just so so so gorgeous. I almost immediately pulled out the web inspector to check what those beautiful fonts were. Aeonik and Rotonto. Alas they are outside my budget ^^;
Sooo cool. I love the themes in here, expecially the retro realPlayer and Winamp ones. Will definitely be using this in a project soon 🚀
Ability to adjust every part of the player design is a real advantage. Complete control without needing complicated code.
The retro theme inspired by Winamp is such a fun throwback! Ideal for projects with a vintage vibe.
I recommend Player.style – the perfect solution for creating unique themes for video players and audio players on your website. The open-source tool, built on top of Media Chrome, allows you to fully customize the look and feel using HTML and CSS.
I really dig the customizable themes! They can make media players feel fresh and engaging. Can’t wait to see how it integrates with different frameworks!
Open-source is where it’s at! Excited to see how this evolves. Are there any plans for community-driven themes? That could be fun!
The design is super clean! I appreciate when tools look good and are easy to use. :-)
Great launch! This is a much-needed resource for developers looking to enhance their media players
do you plan to add more themes in the future? It would be great to have a wider selection to choose from
Awesome product ! highly recommended. I didn't know implementing a video and audio player could be this easy
Love it! Big fan of Mux since day one of starting my business and Im loving it more. Will pick a theme with good vibes, and put it in our video testimonial platform. 💪
This is incredible 🤯 have been looking for a solution like this since forever, glad y'all finally built this!
This is such a thoughtful solution for anyone handling multimedia on their sites.
A well-designed media player can make a huge difference in user experience. I’m curious if anyone has done usability testing with these themes!
