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Player Web X

Stream live and on-demand video across every web-based device with our most lightweight and performant player and growing plugin marketplace.

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Unmatched Playback Performance

See how Player Web X outperforms on average HLS.js, Shaka Player and Video.js on Browsers and Smart TV’s.

Startup

Seeking

Source switching

Key Benefits of Player Web X

Unparalleled
Performance

Leveraging a cutting-edge framework, Player Web X outperforms competitors with unmatched speed and efficiency on web based devices, excelling in key metrics and delivering a superior streaming experience across devices.

Innovative
Player Design

Built with structured concurrency and a modular player design, Bitmovin’s Player Web X was built to optimize the deployment process, making it easy to customize it through plugins to any use case, ensuring a seamless and high-quality experience for both developers and end-users.

Get to market
faster

With Bitmovin’s video experts and managed service, developers are able to deploy Player Web X to the widest range of devices simply and easily. With its new plugin architecture teams can adapt the player to their needs with minimal effort, ensuring their viewers have the best experience on all devices.

Get 10,000 free player impressions each month

Built to Adapt to Every Use Case

The flexibility of an open-source web player paired with the unrivaled performance and stability.

Short-form content

With Player Web X’s minimal bundle size and seamless source switching, give your users the ability to continuously scroll by keeping content at their finger tips and experience engaging and creative content. Ideal for social platforms and cutting-edge in-app experiences, our solution ensures a dynamic and immersive user journey.

Fast start up & small foot print

Built to get viewers streaming and engaged quickly, Player Web X’s lightweight framework enables streaming platforms to minimize page load, video start up, seeking and source switching time, empowering a seamless viewing experience every time they press play.

Customizable user experience

Utilize our open-source player UI or create your own with Player Web X’s event and state systems. customize and implement plugins to adapt your player to your streaming needs.

Fast and easy integration

Developer resources to get started quickly, APIs & documentation to integrate easily.

NPM Repository

Player Module Templates

Developer Community

const conf = {
 key: '50a3d56c-84e8-410b-9c0b-ba7cf051b8c8'
};
const source = {
    hls: 'https://cdn.bitmovin.com/content/assets/streams-sample-video/sintel/m3u8/index.m3u8',
};

const player = new bitmovin.player.Player(document.getElementById('bitmovin-player'), conf);

player.load(source);

Simple and adaptable feature set

Customizable Plugin System

Build your own features, with our open-source plugin architecture, enabling you to create and customize Player Web X to your needs and give your viewers a unique playback experience.

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