HTML5 vs Flash – Which One Has Cooler Video Players?
Is no secret that we support the new technologies that come with HTML5, but at the same time we care about Flash too. After all, Flash player was here first and brought us incredible things that we couldn’t have imagined. Still, there’s time to approach new, innovative and the one that requires least from our resources and time, right? HTML5 does that for us because it requires no actual third party plugin and it is most certainly the most mobile friendly technology available too.
We don’t want to influence your opinions about the two of them and that’s why we gathered 20 video players created using both technologies. Test them all and see which one fits best with your needs because after all there’s a matter of preference and one can fit better than other in different situations.
Check out each of the examples and find the one that’s best for you. Click on title for more features and purchasing and on image to get the live preview of the element.
Flash Video Players
Flash players are recognized to be very interesting and user friendly giving you a large suite of features to help you view videos, add subtitle, add effects and basically everything that is customization. Bellow are some nice previews of this.
Video Roll
Available for $20
One of the most elegant video player in this list. Video roll allows you to display a fancy video gallery which can be displayed in multiple formats – static, wheel, flipper, complete etc.
Video Player With Editable Subtitles
Available for $20
What’s great at this video player is that it comes with a built-in subtitle editors. You can add, synchronize and edit every subtitle that you add on this video while the video is playing.
Video Player + Ads
Available for $15
A simple yet elegant video player which comes with the standard menu, but it also helps the ones interested in business by offering support for advertising.
XML Creative Player
Available for $12
This video player is simple, but it supports YouTube and everything is done without you having to edit any flash file in XML.
YouTube Video Player
Available for $15
Like the name says, this flash player will help you embed any kind of YouTube video into a nice gallery along with a menu that allows others to embed your video.
Smart Video Player
Available for $10
If you are looking for a light-weight Flash powered video player, than this is the one for you.
FLV/MP3 Media Player
Available for $12
As you can see, the player is very modern and good looking, but instead of displaying the image menu, it displays a text one.
Simple Resizable Media Player
Available for $10
Video size can be a big issue if your visitors come from all sorts of devices with different resolution. This player will resize your videos automatically.
HTML5 Video Players
HTML5 Video players are more popular not especially because they come with fancy features, but more because they are lightweight and easy to adopt on mobile devices of any kind. One other benefit is that you will be able to buy a cool professional and highly customizable HTML5 video player for as low as $5.
Vplayer
Available for $7
A very cheap and minimalist video player. If your main goal is the speed, then is a great idea to buy this video player because it is also very easy to customize.
YouTube SEO Playlist
Available for $10
SEO is very important even if we talk about videos. This player will help you embed videos in a nice gallery which will be loved by search engines.
MediaBox
Available for $15
Very nice looking media player where you can embed images, music or videos. Just like a desktop app, the player will display what item is playing currently and a nice dropdown menu.
Video Music Box
Available for $8
This player is fed with YouTube videos which are transformed into music files right inside it.
jQuery HTML5 Player
Available for $5
A lightning fast video player created just to fit the need for a simple video player which does just the main things.
Video Gallery
Available for $18
Another great video gallery, but this time we talk about one that is fed with Vimeo videos. Just like the flash one this comes with a nice scrolling effect too.
Video Roll looks very good, indeed! But considering the fact that HTML5 is much more comprehensive and loads faster, I think I’m going to use the Video Gallery from VideoHive.
I think that HTML5 will decease the role of Flash Payer in Web development
I must agree with you on that.
HTML5 and Flash are in two different categories though they share a commonality of enhancing the impact of webpages and/or web apps especially the former. Some of their respective capability may overlap but designers/developers don’t have to know both to be productive
Flash player 10.1 will kill HTML5