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Videos are often a stove-piped domain for developers. Streaming videos comes with a couple of challenges and technical issues. On the back end, there’s transcoding, trade-offs between file sizes, and computing when encoding as well as compression. For developers, making it possible to just playback videos on devices can bring unique challenges across platforms like Android, iOS, and web browsers. This also explains why there are so many video infrastructure providers and video player providers in the market.
Here come open-source video players like Video.js, jPlayer, MediaElement.js, Plyr, and Clapper. There are also some JavaScript-specific video players as well like the ReactPlayer, Videogular, Vue-core-video-player, and Stencil-video-player. And there are also some proprietary video players like JWPLayer, Bitmovin, Theo, Nexplayer, and castLabs. Every one of these players and categories comes with its pros and cons, and developers choose whatever they feel would best meet their requirements or whatever the organization feels is the best fit for their needs. But the biggest challenge that the developers face when working with videos is that these are all closed ecosystems.
Video as a web medium has been shackling up developers and applications letting highly specialized video engineers who have kept all the understanding of the back-end considerations for handling the media content close to their hearts. But open-source is helping developers break these shackles and making things easier as well as efficient for everybody.
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